[OS X TeX] bbl and idx

Fri Jun 4 11:25:59 EDT 2021

Herb:

I was at a total loss as to how I could create a minimal example, since everything had been working smoothly for months before this incident.

It was clear that I had to figure out what I had changed since the previous (successful) compiling.
I finally found it, though it confuses me.  Attached is my master file for the project (you don’t need to read all the stuff—there’s a lot there).
I happened to notice that I had commented out the “makeindex” command on line 145.
OK, clearly that would explain everything, and once I uncommented it, the index problem went away.
But I wonder if you can explain to me why this command goes before the \begin{document} command on the next line and not after it.
(I am undoubtedly copying the order from earlier projects, so my reasoning—if any—is lost in the fog of history.)

While trying to locate the problem, I took a deep breath and dived into my coeur.log file.  In the process, I found a series of error messages which indicate that I was doing
something wrong in a different place, and I’d like to understand this as well, though it had nothing to do, as far as I can tell, with the problem I originally wrote about.
I had occasion to refer to an online article.  I copied (literally—using command-C) the url that showed up in my browser when I open it, which reads as follows;
http://nonagon.org/ExLibris/bernstein-proves-weierstrass#cite_note-3
so I enclosed in a \texttt{} inside a footnote.  The log file indicates a circular set of corrections before it is abandoned: the # is changed to ##, then that is rejected and so on
until the compiler cries uncle and drops the entry.  So my question is: what is the proper way to enter such a citation?  Even better (since this project produces a pdf file
meant to be used like an e-book by students) is there a way within TeX to enter this as a link, rather than just a quotation of a url?

Thanks for responding to my initial question—and moreover a long-standing and overdue "thank you" for all the work you (and your colleagues) are doing to help idiot users like me navigate the TeXverse.
I’m relieved to have found the source of my initial error (and would like to better understand the placement of the \makeindex command in the master file)
and would be grateful if you could enlighten me on the ways to cite a url, since I am sure there will be occasion for more citations like this in the future.

Sincerely and thankfully
Ziggy Nitecki

Zbigniew Nitecki
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Tufts University
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On Jun 3, 2021, at 21:21, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com<mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com>> wrote:

On Jun 3, 2021, at 5:04 PM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu<mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu>> wrote:

I have been working on a book project in TeXShop using the documentstyle memoire; things have been more-or-less ok until today.
The document is (was) around 320 pages long;  on my latest compile, all of a sudden I couldn’t get through the compilation with an “r” command to the console.
I trashed aux files, went back and tried to compile with Makeindex and with Bibtex; MakeIndex returns an error message
Input index file Coeur.idx not found.
Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p num] [idx0 idx1 ...]
(my root file is called Coeur.tex)
and Bibtex returns an empty console.
Maybe the empty console is not a problem—I am not putting in any new bib entries, and my output still has a bibliography (though I can’t tell if it reflects all the entries
I put in)—though, having trashed the aux files, I expected a message saying that a certain number of entries had been accepted.

Looking at individual error messages, I thought some of the problems may have been with a few references in both bibliography and text to Czech names and titles, in particular the accents.  I went back and put them all in the format (eg, Hyk{\v{s}}ov{\’{a}}).

But I have no idea what the problem with makeindex is.  Where should I be looking?

Zbigniew Nitecki

Howdy,

Can you make a minimal example file that shows the problem? How are you typesetting the document? Are you running each step independently or via a latexmk engine? Any details would be appreciated.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com<mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com>

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