I'm writing a document which references bug reports
in Debian. The official format of a Debian bug report number is
'#999999'. In order to make these numbers even more clearly Debian
bug report numbers, in my document, I'm prefixing them whe 'BTS',
so now they look like 'BTS#999999'. I would prefer to stick to this
format instead of losing the '#' or the 'BTS'
When compiling to DVI, I get the following LaTeX error:
you can't use `macro parameter character #' in horizontal mode
\item BTS#
287585, 28
Sorry, but I'm not programmed to handle this case;
I'll just pretend that you didn't ask for it.
If you're in the wrong mode, you might be able to
return to the right one by typing `I}' or `I$' or `I\par'.
So I tried a couple of things. First Google led me to this:
At http://theoval.sys.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/novices/cantusehash.html
I found some *TeX*-level advice to do backslash-prefixing. I could
see this wasn't really going to work at LyX level, but I tried it.
The result was that the index is generates, the index entry is correct,
but the actual text in the body of the document has a backslash in
front of it. I.e.
... see BTS\#287585 ...
Index
BTS#287585, 28
(Actually it's on page 27, but ... one thing at a time.)
Second, the LyX wiki at http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing suggested
an ERT-based way to make indexes yourself, rather than letting LyX
do it. But this did not go well:
I inserted the following in the preamble:
\newcommand{\index2page}{
\renewcommand{\indexname}{My second index}
\printindex[index2]
}
\newcommand{\index2}[1]{\index[index2]{#1}}
but immediately the syntax highlighting indicated that 'index2...' was
being treated as 'index' + '2....' and compiling produced:
LaTex Error: Command \index already defined.
Fine. So I changed all occurences of 'index2' to 'indexa' in the
preamble, in my ERT for the index entry and the ERT for the index
itself. This was better, but still, I got:
Undefined control sequence.
with the ERT for the index itself '\indexapage' highlighted. But the
entry defining this is in the preamble.
(By putting a 'date >> /tmp/log' inside the script that the wiki
says to create to generate the index, I determined that that script
was never called before the above error occurred. Not sure if
that's relevent.)
Can anybody offer any advice please? Thanks!
Alexis
