On Monday 16 November 2009 12:25:17 Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I've made 4 books previously and the index has always appeared
> correctly. I did the same with an earlier version of the present book
> and again the index appeared. But now although I have numerous words
> marked for indexing, when I insert "Index" via the menu at the end of
> the book nothing is printed.
>
> I think I must have missed out something obvious but what? I'm using the
> same preamble as usual; nothing has changed. It is Book class. Any
> suggestions please?
>
> Anthony
There could be a hundred explanations. To narrow it down I'd compile at the
command line instead of in the LyX environment. Something like this
shellscript, where $1 is the name of the LyX file, but without the .lyx
extension:
#############################################
#!/bin/bash
StyleFile=mydoc.ist
LyxCmd=lyx
### REMOVE ALL INTERMEDIATE FILES
rm -f mydoc.aux
rm -f mydoc.dvi
rm -f mydoc.ps
rm -f mydoc.pdf
rm -f mydoc.idx
rm -f mydoc.ilg
rm -f mydoc.ind
rm -f mydoc.log
rm -f mydoc.tex
rm -f mydoc.toc
### EXPORT TO LATEX AND COMPILE
$LyxCmd --export latex mydoc.lyx
latex mydoc.tex
### RUN makeindex TO CONSTRUCT INDEX INTERMEDIATE FILES
if test -f $StyleFile; then
makeindex -s $StyleFile mydoc.idx
else
makeindex mydoc.idx
fi
### AT THIS POINT, MANUALLY INSPECT mydoc.ilg FOR ERRORS.
### IF THERE ARE ERRORS, USE mydoc.ilg AND mydoc.ind TO
### TROUBLESHOOT THOSE ERRORS. DO NOT GO FARTHER UNTIL
### makeindex RUNS CLEANLY WITHOUT ERRORS.
### ONCE AGAIN COMPILE WITH LATEX TO INCORPORATE INDEXING FILES
latex mydoc.tex
### CHECK TO MAKE SURE THE PRECEDING COMPILE WORKED,
### IF NOT TROUBLESHOOT
### CONVERT TO PDF. CAREFUL, FOLLOWING LINE WRAPS IN EMAIL
dvips -o mydoc.tmp.ps mydoc.dvi
ps2pdf12 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true -
dEmbedAllFonts=true mydoc.ps
### VIEW THE RESULTS
xpdf myfile.pdf
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Do the preceding, and you'll be able to troubleshoot your problem, or at least
narrow it to the point where you can get further help.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
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