I have a document that has \usepackage{makeidx} and \makeindex in the preamble and \printindex inside the document body. An .idx file is created when I compile, no errors are signalled, still there is no index listing in the PDF document that is produced. There used to be one until all my files were deleted except the .tex file, after that I could not get the index to appear in my output.
How can one troubleshoot this thing? I have changed all the "%bm" with "%tm" wherever I could find it in the build profiles (Tools -> Options -> Clean), as Thorsten Donig suggested on this website (in an answer to another posting regarding problems with the index creation). It did not solve my problem.
I am using the TeXnicCenter editor on Windows XP, with the MiKTeX 2.9 distribution.
[Tex/LaTex] Index not created in pdf output, even though idx file is present
indexing
Related Solutions
Go into TeXnicCenters menu Output->active output profile (don't really know the english names) and disable the checkbox for using makeindex
In order to use section numbers instead of page numbers it is necessary to redefine the way, the index entry is written to \jobname.idx. That is basically easy, if the package imakeidx is used.
In its manual, imakeidx the author writes, that \imki@wrindexentry should be redefined to apply for other styles. Looking into the package, there is a similar command used with \thepage as argument, so redefined it, using \thesection.
However, makeindex as external processor complains about the new format if \thesection writes its numbers as 1.1 etc., i.e. with dots. Using xindy solves this problem, by applying a new alphabet or location-class, this is done in sectionindex_xindy.xdy, as well as removing the , separator and inserting ----- instead.
Content of sectionindex_xindy.xdy
(markup-locclass-list :open " ----- " :sep "")
( define-location-class "numericsections"
("arabic-numbers" :sep "." "arabic-numbers"))
( define-location-class "numericchapteralphasections"
("arabic-numbers" :sep "." "ALPHA"))
\documentclass[paper=a4,12pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage{letltxmacro}
\usepackage[xindy]{imakeidx}
%\usepackage{hyperref}% Leads to linking to wrong positions%
\makeatletter
% Global redefinition of indexentry to section instead of page%
\renewcommand{\imki@wrindexentrysplit}[3]{%
\expandafter\protected@write\csname#1@idxfile\endcsname{}%
{\string\indexentry{#2}{\thesection}}%
}%
\LetLtxMacro{\LaTeXStandardFigure}{\figure}
\let\LaTeXStandardEndFigure\endfigure%
\renewenvironment{figure}[1][tpb]{%
%redefine the index write command to use figure number instead of section number
\renewcommand{\imki@wrindexentrysplit}[3]{%
\expandafter\protected@write\csname##1@idxfile\endcsname{}%
{\string\indexentry{##2}{\thefigure}}
}%
\LaTeXStandardFigure[#1]%
}{%
\LaTeXStandardEndFigure%
}%
\LetLtxMacro{\LaTeXStandardTable}{\table}
\let\LaTeXStandardEndTable\endtable%
\renewenvironment{table}[1][tpb]{%
%redefine the index write command to use table number instead of section number
\renewcommand{\imki@wrindexentrysplit}[3]{%
\expandafter\protected@write\csname##1@idxfile\endcsname{}%
{\string\indexentry{##2}{\thetable}}
}%
\LaTeXStandardTable[#1]%
}{%
\LaTeXStandardEndTable%
}%
\makeatother
\makeindex[options=-M sectionindex_xindy.xdy]
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{figure}}%
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{chapter}.\Alph{section}}%
\renewcommand{\thetable}{\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{table}}%
\begin{document}
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\chapter{First}
\begin{figure}
\caption{A first figure with index entry, say Figure\index{Figure!First}}
\end{figure}
\section{First section of chapter~\arabic{chapter}}
Here is a table (well, the environment actually)
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lll}
\hline
A & dummy & table \tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{A table with some index entry in it: \index{Table}{First}}
\end{table}
See also the keyword Index\index{Index}
\chapter{Two}
\section{First}
Index\index{Index} and its usage\index{usage}
\begin{figure}
\caption{A dummy figure with an index entry, say DummyFigure\index{Figure!DummyFigure}}
\end{figure}
\printindex
\end{document}
In order to make this work for figures/tables, I just redefined the command again within wrappers for figure and table environment. You have redefine \thefigure and \thetable explicitly, since it seems, that they introduce a trailing \relax command just before the figure/table number.
Please note, that this does not work correctly with hyperlinks so far,regarding the figure/table index entries.
Enabling --shell-escape is mandatory.
Best Answer
During a compile of your file with LaTeX with the
\makeindexcommand present, an.idxfile is produced. However,\printindexrequires a processed version of.idx, or a.indfile - the processed version being one that is formatted according to a hierarchy and sorted alphabetically. For this, you require an intermediate step:latexorpdflatexyourmyfile.tex(this createsmyfile.idx)makeindex myfile(this processesmyfile.idxintomyfile.ind)latexorpdflatexyourmyfile.texagain