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- From: gram@aim1.aztec.co.za (Graham Wheeler)
- Subject: Bug in makeindex?
- Message-ID: <gram.727784739@aim1>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 10:25:39 GMT
- Organization: Aztec Information Management
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- Hi TeXers
-
- I am having problems with makeindex. I find that it produces a large
- number of warning messages (approx 20% of my \index entries have warnings
- about unmatched range opening and closing). Furthermore, it messes up
- a lot of the ranges, and seems to interpret |(} as a special in some cases
- as I get entries backslashes and braces where there shouldn't be any.
- LaTeX chokes on the results with lost of `missing $ inserted' messages.
- This occurs with the makeindex that is shipped with the Dell SVR4 TeX
- distribution, as well as the version I have under DOS (emTeX). The .idx
- file produced by LaTeX is perfect; it is the .ind file produces by makeindex
- that is full of rubbish.
-
- Has anyone else experienced this problem, and is there an easy solution
- other than going in by hand each time and fixing the .ind file?
-
- BTW, I have checked the ranges in the .idx file very carefully, and there
- are *no* unmatched ranges. The problem is definitely with makeindex.
-
- Thanks in advance
- Graham
-
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