[OS X TeX] beameruserguide

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On Thu 30th Sep, 2010 at 10:58, Adam M. Goldstein seems to have written:

> On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> On 30/09/10 01:58, Dr. Clea F. Rees wrote:
>>> I was using beamer in a major way for the first time since updating  o
>>> TL 2010 and discovered that beameruserguide.pdf no longer includes an
>>> index. Looking at the source, it seems that an index should be built so
>>> I copied the contents of the doc directory to /tmp and tried running
>>> make. This fails, however, because make looks for files concerning
>>> themes which it cannot find and which do not, in fact, seem to exist on
>>> my system (locate cannot find hem).
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>>> Fortunately, I still have TL 2009 but can anybody tell me how I can
>>> build the documentation to include the index? Since the manual is 40
>>> pages I rely rather heavily on this feature. (In effect, the manual is
>>> almost useless to me without it although I'm sure it makes a good read.)
>>
>> You mean 240 pages, right?
>>
>
> $ texdoc beamer -> I get the manual, ready to go, but no index, as Clea suggests.
>
> It's 240 pages.
>
> I have an old copy of the manual, from 2005, and it has an index. I don't have whatever was in TL 2009. I can't imagine that the 2010 manual doesn't have an index.
>
> Is there any reason to suspect that the compiled documentation should have an index, except that it would be useful---I mean, any indexing markup in the source?

Yes. There's indexing markup in the source and the Makefile includes
commands to make the index.

The table of contents in the compiled manual is also wrong in the sense
that the page numbers are incorrect (although the links work fine).

The version from 2009 has an index.

- cfr

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