On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Herbert Voss wrote: > Paul Benham wrote: > > > > I have been using Lyx since version 1.0. I am now on the latest 1.1.6fix3. > > When I try to insert an index, the index button in the document is flat > > looking. When I preview the document the index is not there. What am I doing > > wrong? I am using Mandrake 8.0. > > seems to be another problem which depends to your text. what does the > view->logfile says? > > Herbert > > -- Hello Paul, If I remeber correctly, this is a bug caused by the Mandrake Compiler (gcc 2.96.??). You can work around this if you do the following: 1. Open document in LyX and view as PS 2. Without closing the PS-document open a schell and change to /tmp/lyxtmpdir???? 3. Look for a file ending in .idx: do a find . -name "*.idx" 4. copy said file into the same directory as your LyX-file 5. run makeindex yourfilename.idx - for details check man makeindex - you can do some fancy stuff this way. 6. include the output into your LyX-document and throw out the index-tag If you change your index you have to redo the procedure. I also believe that RedHat 7.1 showed the same problem, but the SuSE 7.2 distrubution worked fine in this regard. Hope this helpes, Michael