OK, I've researched it a little more, and during the lyx --export latex, LyX
is converting a LyX idx inset containing "chapter 2|(" without the quotes to
the following LaTeX:
\index{chapter 2|(@chapter 2\textbar{}(}
The stuff from the "@" through the last "(" is superflous and causes errors. I
have two choices:
1) Get LyX to quit adding the stuff between the @ and the trailing ( or ) when
converting from LyX to latex, or
2) Create a computer program to go through my entire LaTeX file after export,
and remove all of those little extras. That would be incredibly kludgy and I'd
prefer not do do it.
So does anyone know why LyX 1.6.3 adds the extraneous material on range index
entries, and how I can turn off this behavior?
Thanks
SteveT
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 13:35:22 Steve Litt wrote:
> See my responses and example LyX file...
>
> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 13:02:03 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> > Steve Litt wrote:
> > > Indexing on several of my books failed after I moved from
> > > Mandriva/LyX1.5.x to Ubuntu/LyX1.6.x.
> >
> > What version of LyX exactly?
>
> 1.6.3:
> ==============================
> sl...@mydesk:/d/at_mony/books$ lyx -version
> LyX 1.6.3 (2009-06-03)
> Built on Jul 14 2009, 08:43:32
> Configuration
> Host type: i486-pc-linux-gnu
> Special build flags: aiksaurus warnings use-aspell use-ispell
> C Compiler: gcc
> C Compiler LyX flags:
> C Compiler flags: -g -O2
> C++ Compiler: g++ (4.3.3)
> C++ Compiler LyX flags:
> C++ Compiler flags: -g -O2
> Linker flags:
> Linker user flags: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,defs
> -Wl,--as- needed
> Qt 4 Frontend:
> Qt 4 version: 4.5.0
> Packaging: posix
> LyX binary dir: /usr/bin
> LyX files dir: /usr/share/lyx
>
> sl...@mydesk:/d/at_mony/books$
> ==============================
>
> > Could you provide a small example file (ideally both the original LyX 1.5
> > and the converted LyX 1.6 version)?
>
> I no longer have 1.5.x, but it doesn't matter. From scratch I created a
> tiny LyX file using book document class, with one "right here" index
> entries, and two "from here --- to here" entries. Here's how you reproduce
> the symptom:
>
> lyx --export latex index_bug_simp.lyx
> latex index_bug_simp.tex
> makeindex index_bug_simp.idx
>
> Here is the resulting .ilg file -- note the errors where I had index
> ranges: ==============================
> This is makeindex, version 2.14 [02-Oct-2002] (kpathsea + Thai support).
> Scanning input file index_bug_simp.idx....
> !! Input index error (file = index_bug_simp.idx, line = 2):
> -- Extra `@' at position 12 of first argument.
> !! Input index error (file = index_bug_simp.idx, line = 3):
> -- Extra `@' at position 12 of first argument.
> !! Input index error (file = index_bug_simp.idx, line = 4):
> -- Extra `@' at position 12 of first argument.
> !! Input index error (file = index_bug_simp.idx, line = 5):
> -- Extra `@' at position 12 of first argument.
> done (1 entries accepted, 4 rejected).
> Sorting entries...done (0 comparisons).
> Generating output file index_bug_simp.ind....done (5 lines written, 0
> warnings).
> Output written in index_bug_simp.ind.
> Transcript written in index_bug_simp.ilg.
> ==============================
>
> And the following is the .idx file producing those errors. Note the
> misconfiguration of all index entries that were ranges:
> ==============================
> \indexentry{chapter 1}{1}
> \indexentry{chapter 2|(@chapter 2\textbar {}(}{2}
> \indexentry{chapter 2|)@chapter 2\textbar{})}{2}
> \indexentry{chapter 3|(@chapter 3\textbar {}(}{3}
> \indexentry{chapter 3|)@chapter 3\textbar{})}{3}
> ==============================
>
> How did the at sign (@) and \textbar get put in there? I specified no
> specific formatting.
>
> Anyway, index_bug_simp.lyx is attached.
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
> > Jürgen
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