[Tex/LaTex] Makeindex fails when called from a script

glossariesxetex

I've written a (python) script to automate my XeLaTeX run. What it does:

creates a temp dir
copies necessary tex, bib and image files into it from the cwd
runs xelatex on the tex file
runs biber on the file basename
runs makeglossaries on the file basename
runs xelatex x 2 on the tex file
copies the resulting PDF back to current working dir

So far, so straightforward; I'm just emulating what I would do manually. However, my makeglossaries call fails with the following error:

makeglossaries version 2.02 (2011-04-02)
added glossary type 'main' (glg,gls,glo)
makeindex  -s "test-mmd3.ist" -t "/var/folders/In/Inv5nKauESSVg9ibb4l3c++++TI/-Tmp-/tmpG330ND/test-mmd3.glg" -o "/var/folders/In/Inv5nKauESSVg9ibb4l3c++++TI/-Tmp-/tmpG330ND/test-mmd3.gls" "/var/folders/In/Inv5nKauESSVg9ibb4l3c++++TI/-Tmp-/tmpG330ND/test-mmd3.glo"
Index style file test-mmd3.ist not found.
Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p num] [idx0 idx1 ...]

***Call to makeindex failed***

Possible cause of problem:

Style name indicates makeindex, but may be in xindy format.
Remember to use \setStyleFile to specify the name
of the style file rather than redefining \istfilename
explicitly.

Check '/var/folders/In/Inv5nKauESSVg9ibb4l3c++++TI/-Tmp-/tmpG330ND/test-mmd3.glg' for details

I've checked that all the necessary files are being produced (in particular, the .ist file), openout_any is set to a, and the run completes fine when I do it manually using the same steps. I'm wondering if the error has anything to do with the the -s test-mmd3.ist option in makeindex; should it be using the full path, i.e. /var/folders/In/Inv5nKauESSVg9ibb4l3c++++TI/-Tmp-/tmpG330ND/test-mmd3.ist?

Best Answer

(Originally posted as a comment by Ulrike Fischer)

I doubt that you are in the temp directory when calling makeglossaries. A simple makeglossaries file doesn't show absolute paths. Also I get exactly the same error/messages as you when I start makeglossaries from another directory with an absolute path as argument. I also get errors when I call makeglossaries from the document folder but still with an absolute path as argument but then the error message is slightly different.

But it is so dirty, I don't know how to resolve it fine.

[Tex/LaTex] How to move from makeindex to xindy

It is not clear to me what kind of issues you are experiencing, so I will give you complete example on how to use modern LaTeX engine (lualatex or xelatex) with xindy. With pdflatex, there might be some problems with accented characters, see this answer for some details.

So in our example, we have utf8 file with some Czech language index and glossary entries:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[]{fontspec}
\usepackage[czech]{babel}
\usepackage[xindy={language=czech, codepage=utf8}, style=altlist]{glossaries}
\usepackage[xindy, splitindex]{imakeidx}
\usepackage[itemlayout=singlepar]{idxlayout}
\setmainfont{TeX Gyre Termes}
\makeglossaries
\def\xindylangopt{-M lang/czech/utf8-lang}
\makeindex[options=\xindylangopt]
\makeindex[name=nameindex,title = Index of names,  options=\xindylangopt]
\newglossaryentry{first}{name = ddd, description = {První položka}}
\newglossaryentry{second}{name = čokoláda, description = {Druhá položka}}
\newglossaryentry{third}{name = cosi, description = {Třetí položka}}
\begin{document}
  Hello worls, \gls{first}, \gls{second} and \gls{third}
  \index[nameindex]{Čapek, Karel}
  \index[nameindex]{Hašek, Jaroslav}
  \index[nameindex]{Cílek, Václav}
  \index[nameindex]{Deml, Jakub}
  \index[nameindex]{Chalupa, Václav}
  \index{Hello|see{Entry}}
  \index{Entry!Subentry}
  \index{Entry!Another subentry}
  \index{What|textbf}
  \printglossary
  \printindex[nameindex]
  \printindex
\end{document}

Some important points:

\usepackage[xindy={language=czech, codepage=utf8}, style=altlist]{glossaries}

glossaries package have built in xindy support, we only have to set xindy option and pass correct arguments for language and codepage. makeglossaries script will take care of correct xindy call for us.

\usepackage[xindy, splitindex]{imakeidx}
...
\def\xindylangopt{-M lang/czech/utf8-lang}
\makeindex[options=\xindylangopt]
\makeindex[name=nameindex,title = Index of names,  options=\xindylangopt]

for index creation, we use imakeidx package. There we create two indexes, one general and other for names. xindy option will call xindy automatically on LaTeX run

\xindylangopt macro defines xindy options for language processing, -M lang/czech/utf8-lang will use xindy module for the Czech language in utf8 encoding.

two uses of \makeindex will create two indexes, there are many options which can be used for formatting of these indexes, see imakeidx manual.

For example of another mean of controlling index appearance, I used also

\usepackage[itemlayout=singlepar]{idxlayout}

which will result in index in run-in style. I don't like it much, I just wanted to show you what can be done :). idxlayout package really isn't necessary, but maybe you will find it useful.

Now how to compile the example:

lualatex sample.tex
makeglossaries sample
lualatex -shell-escape sample.tex

first lualatex run will write glossary and index entries, makeglossaries script will compile the glossary, second lualatex run is with -shell-escape option, so indexes are creaed by imakeidx automatically.

The result:

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