It seems it can be fixed by (a) using ! rather than | as the sort key (the sorting of special symbols is arbitrary anyway) (b) using \char124 to denote the | symbol
I would expect to see this problem in any index entry involving the | symbol. Larry On 30 May 2011, at 14:58, Lawrence Paulson wrote: > My impression from fooling around a little is that this is a bug that has > been around for a year and a half. The comment seems to suggest that | no > longer works as an index item (even when protected using"), so we have to > give up index entries for the symbols | and |-|. I wonder whether there is > some sort of workaround? > > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Recent-TeX-changes-and-R-package-manuals-td956056.html > >> (ii) there have been intermittent problems with (LaTeX) special >> characters in indices. But (hyperref 6.79d) >> >> Full support of makeindex’s encap feature (e.g. >> \index{alpha|textbf}). \hyperpage and the formatting command are >> cascaded via \hyperindexformat. Internally \index{alpha|textbf} is >> transferred to \index{alpha|hyperindexformat{\textbf}}. >> \hyperindexformat calls the formatting command in its first argument >> with the page range as argument that is put into \hyperpage. The >> formatting command may call \hyperpage itself, it will be disabled >> automatically to prevent nested \hyperpage commands. >> >> has broken '|' as an index item ('||' was already broken) so I added >> some special-casing (this does look like a bug in hyperref). > > Larry > > On 30 May 2011, at 09:39, Alexander Krauss wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The nightly isatest stopped working after the tex distribution on our >> servers was updated to Tex Live 2010 (at least we suspect that this is the >> cause of the problem). >> >> This seems to be an obscure latex problem that arises when buliding >> doc-src/Logics. It seems that the (generated!) file logics.ind is somehow >> malformed, which makes the subsequent tex run crash. >> >> Could someone who knows more about this document setup look into this issue? >> >> Steps to reproduce: >> >> * Log into macbroy20-28 >> * On some repository clone, go to ~~/doc-src/Logics and run >> >> make clean dvi >> >> >> Note that the regular nightly isatest will not run until this is fixed, >> because it first builds the documentation (as part of the distribution). The >> new testing framework is not affected by it (since it effectively ignores >> documentation at the moment). >> >> Alex >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: isabelle dist build failed >> Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 00:18:04 +0200 >> From: isat...@macbroy28.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Account Isatest) >> To: kra...@in.tum.de >> >> Could not build isabelle distribution. Log file available at >> macbroy28:/home/isatest/log/isatest-makedist-2011-05-30.log >> _______________________________________________ >> isabelle-dev mailing list >> isabelle-...@in.tum.de >> https://mailmanbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/mailman/listinfo/isabelle-dev > _______________________________________________ isabelle-dev mailing list isabelle-...@in.tum.de https://mailmanbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/mailman/listinfo/isabelle-dev
