<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Feb2020, at 4:02 PM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">On Feb 10, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">In source:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">       </span>\index{Urysohn Metrization Theorem}<br class=""><br class="">in one location and<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">        </span>\index{Urysohn Metrization Theorem|mainref}<br class=""><br class="">in another location (with \mainref defined as specified in my original message).<br class=""><br class="">I’m using memoir documentclass with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">     </span>\makeindex<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">   </span>….<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>\printindex<br class=""><br class="">Indexing from:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">     </span>\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">     </span><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">     </span>\hypersetup{<br class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">   </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> plainpages=false,%pdfpagelabels,<br class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">  </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> bookmarksnumbered,<br class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">        </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> breaklinks=true,<br class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">  </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> colorlinks, citecolor=red, filecolor=black, linkcolor=blue, urlcolor=blue,<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">      </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>linktocpage=true,linktoc=all<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">  </span>}<br class=""><br class="">Is there anything else I can supply, short of the entire, approximately 2.5 MB, folder tree of files, that might help you help me?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 10 Feb2020, at 3:20 PM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 10, 2020, at 12:35 PM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I’m looking for any possible clues in trying to track down the error with pdflatex<br class=""><br class="">\mathit allowed only in math mode<br class=""><br class="">encountered while latexmk is writing .idx.<br class=""><br class="">This is occurring, in the first instance with .ind entry<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">      </span>\item \idxmark{Urysohn Metrization Theorem}, \hyperpage{506},<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">  </span>\mainref{580}<br class=""><br class="">The function \mainref is defined as:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">     </span>\newcommand{\mainref}[1]{\textbf{\emph{\hyperpage{#1}}}}<br class=""><br class="">But the error occurs even if I change \mainref to: \newcommand{\mainref}[1]{#1}<br class=""><br class="">The document’s .ist file includes<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">  </span>item_0  "\n\\item \\idxmark{"<br class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">   </span>delim_0 "}, "<br class=""><br class="">where \idxmark is defined in my preamble by:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">   </span>\providecommand\gobbleone[1]{}<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">       </span>\newcommand{\idxmark}[1]{{\let\gobbleone\relax\markboth{\sffamily\bfseries#1}{\sffamily\bfseries#1}}#1}<br class=""><br class="">If I comment out the \index entries for that “Urysohn Metrization Theorem”, then the same error occurs for other entries.<br class=""><br class="">I APOLOGIZE for not providing a complete, minimal working example for reproducing the error, but I think some clue might help me devise such. The document in question is of book length, with a complex source structure that includes several style files constituting the preamble.<br class=""><br class="">NOTE: This error did not occur a week or two ago, despite no change to my preamble. So I think something has changed in some latex package to cause this.<br class="">---<br class="">Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">    </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">  </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">  </span><a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Howdy,<br class=""><br class="">What does that entry look like in the source file? Are you using any particular indexing package? Not that I'm on to anything :-(.<br class=""><br class="">Good Luck,<br class=""><br class="">Herb Schulz<br class="">(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Howdy,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">How about tge log file; maybe the error is really occurring before this.</span><br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Gladly…the log is attached — hope it’s not scrubbed..</div><div><br class=""></div><div>(I forgot you’re a bottom-replier, not a top-replier!)</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div>Murray</div><div class=""></div></div></body></html>