Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-16 Thread Helge Hafting
William F. Adams wrote: On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 09:36 AM, stephan beal wrote: But if i delete it or rename it to, e.g., "foo" i get even MORE errors. As Herbert noted, special characters which have special meanings aren't changed by LyX when entered into an index field --- this probabl

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-13 Thread stephan beal
On Friday 13 August 2004 03:38, Fernando Perez wrote: > stephan beal wrote: > > Now it's time for me to go hack lyxport so it can run makeindex... > > (lyxport-exported docs are missing the index). ... > If you get this to work, send the mods/patch my way, and I'll put up > a new version on the usu

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi Stephan, stephan beal wrote: > Now it's time for me to go hack lyxport so it can run makeindex... > (lyxport-exported docs are missing the index). I saw this accidentally, I almost never read the lyx lists anymore. If you get this to work, send the mods/patch my way, and I'll put up a new v

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 07:55 PM, stephan beal wrote: Right, but by putting it into the section head, it'll then _also_ appear in the ToC, and that will appear in the index as well, which you probably don't want, possibly also in the running head (this depends on the documentclass and set

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread stephan beal
On Thursday 12 August 2004 16:33, William F. Adams wrote: > If you take HV up on getting the tex file, you can then re-import it > into LyX and have a good file which you can examine to learn how to > enter such special characters into index fields. That's a very good idea. Thanks :) Regarding ID

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread stephan beal
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 21:19, Herbert Voss wrote: > stephan beal wrote: > > But deleting the broken IDX entry just causes MORE errors. i don't > > get it Just FYI, after nuking all IDX entries i've gotten it to work, and am now happily re-indexing my document. Now it's time for me to g

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread William F. Adams
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 09:36 AM, stephan beal wrote: But if i delete it or rename it to, e.g., "foo" i get even MORE errors. As Herbert noted, special characters which have special meanings aren't changed by LyX when entered into an index field --- this probably qualifies as a bug, or

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-12 Thread stephan beal
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 21:19, Herbert Voss wrote: > you have a lot of errors in your code. It's not MY code, it's LyX's code ;). i just do the typing. i find it extremely disappointing that lyx allows me to enter invalid entries using the Index entry dialog!!! > - the underscore is _math_ c

Re: woe with indexing

2004-08-11 Thread Herbert Voss
stephan beal wrote: But deleting the broken IDX entry just causes MORE errors. i don't get it If i change the line containing the error from a Subsection to Standard i get 28 errors. If i delete the line altogether i get 25 errors. The line currently has 2 index entries. If delete the 1st on

woe with indexing

2004-08-11 Thread stephan beal
Hi, Lyx users! i'm pulling my hair out... while exporting my Lyx doc i have ONE error, something to do with an index entry. When i remove the index entry then i suddenly get tons of COMPLETELY unrelated errors, going all the way back to the very top of the doc. i'm damned if i do, damned if i d