<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Right, the .idx is not being written into yet (zero bytes), due to the error.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The line numbers you mention seem to refer to the <font face="Courier" class="">.ind</font>, not the source files. (The root .tex file is rather short.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or am I misunderstanding the error message, which with all my chapters, etc., now included in the pdflatexmk run, now reads:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">./topologybook.ind:1773: LaTeX Error: \mathit allowed only in math mode.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">. . . .</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">l.1773 \item \idxmark{Urysohn Metrization Theorem}</font><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""> </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class=""> , \hyperpage{506}</span></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Feb2020, at 7:24 PM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">It appears that the problem is in the .ind file or a write to it not .idx. Also, take a look at the paragraph at lines 1681--1683 in the root file which seems to be close to where that error is being generated.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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