Hubert Christiaen wrote: > As the problem at this moment occurs only with the whole document, it's > hard to give a test case. The previous version with index was 4.4 MB
Try to cut down the document by bisecting. This procedure actually might reveal what's wrong. > The question is: is there a possibility of seeing some error messages from > xindy? Run LyX from a terminal. Also, you can make xindy write a log file via the -t <logfile> option. The log file will then be in the temporary directory. > can it be run separately to test on the idx file? Can there be some > tracing of what is going on during index generation? Where are the > parameters for xindy set? Tools > Preferences > Output > LaTeX. HTH, Jürgen