[Texi2LaTeX-dev] Re: makeindex.bat

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

"Aaron S. Hawley" <address@hidden> writes:

> [...]
>
> I had trouble with the makeindex.bat file.  Running it I get:
>
> $ sh makeindex.bat
> Index style file texi2latex.ist not found.
> Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p num] [idx0
> idx1 ...]

Mmmmh...  It may well be that I forgot an important step in the
manual: Perhaps it is necessary to run "texhash" (as root if you've
installed texi2latex in /usr/) immediately after having installed
texi2latex.  "texhash" assures that all TeX-related programs find
their files.

By the way, on most Linux systems, "texhash" is called regularly
(e.g. daily).  So it could be that it works tomorrow ...  ;-)

> [...]
>
> Finally, why isn't the LaTeX command \makeindex used in the header
> of the output file, which is suggested by most LaTeX2e
> documentation?

I think I just forgot it.  However, I read the source of index.sty
and apparently, \makeindex just sets up the default index.  Since
texi2latex has no default index (every index command has an index
class in brackets [...]), it should be pointless to call it anyway.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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