[OS X TeX] beameruserguide

[cfrees at imapmail.org]

On Thu 30th Sep, 2010 at 16:22, Martin Costabel seems to have written:

> 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).
>
> You were probably looking for beamerugthemeAnnArbor.pdf or similar. This will 
> be made by make, too, if the right style file is found.
> The Makefile has a relative path which will be wrong for your situation. I 
> see here "../themes/theme/beamertheme%.sty". Find the "themes" directory that 
> contains theme/beamerthemeAnnArbor.sty and make a symlink to it on the level 
> of the "doc" directory (tricky if you copied the *contents* of doc to /tmp; 
> easier if you copied the doc directory itself).
>
Thanks. I'll have another go.

>> 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?
>
I did. Sorry about the typo.

- cfr