<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Source file <font face="Courier" class="">styledndex.tex:</font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> \documentclass{book}</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> \usepackage{makeidx}</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> \makeindex</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> \begin{document}</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> Some text.\index{apple}\index{apricot}</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> \index{banana}\index{blackberry}\index{blueberry}</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> \index{currant}\index{cherry}</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> \index{date}</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> \printindex</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> \end{document}</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Index style file <font face="Courier" class="">styledindex.ist</font>:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> headings_flag 1</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> heading_prefix "{<a href="smb://medskip//hfill//large//textsf" class="">\\medskip\\hfill\\large\\textsf</a>{<a href="smb://textbf" class="">\\textbf</a>{"</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> heading_suffix "}}<a href="smb://hfill" class="">\\hfill</a>}<a href="smb://medskip//nopagebreak/n" class="">\\medskip\\nopagebreak\n</a>”</font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I just (i) run Latex from within TeXShop; (ii) from command line execute</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> makeindex -s styledindex.ist styledindex</font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">and (iii) again run latex from within TeXShop, I get the index with the style I expect — each letter group is headed by its letter A, B, C, or D (and in a bold sans-serif).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, with the following file <font face="Courier" class="">platexmkrc</font> in the source directory...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> add_cus_dep('idx', 'ind', 0, 'makeidx2ind');</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> sub makidx2ind {</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> system("makeindex —s '$_[0]'.ist -o '$_[0]'.ind '$_[0]'.idx");</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""> };</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">… if instead I run the <font face="Courier" class="">pdflatexmk</font> engine from within TeXShop, those letter group headings do not appear — the <font face="Courier" class="">.ist</font> file is being ignored — although of course an index is produced.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What’s wrong?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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