[Tex/LaTex] Option delim_0 “\\dotfill” in makeindex ignored by texlive’s makeindex

indexingtexlive

I've a problem when making the index with a personal style file. Here is my file perso.ist

headings_flag 1

heading_prefix "{\\bfseries\\hfil "

heading_suffix "\\hfil}\\nopagebreak\n"

delim_0 "\\dotfill"

delim_1 "\\dotfill"

delim_2 "\\dotfill"

When I use makeindex toto.idx, I've no error; when I want to use my personal file with the command makeindex -s perso.ist toto.idx, texlive says he ignored 3 lines, and obviously, it is the 3 lines relating to the dots: delim_0 \\dotfill etc.

Do you know why?

Best Answer

Could it be that you are using a file with windows line endings? If I create a perso.ist with CR+LF line endings I get:

Scanning style file ./perso.ist......done (6 attributes redefined, 6 ignored).

but with just LF it works ok:

Scanning style file ./perso.ist......done (6 attributes redefined, 0 ignored).

If you are using texlive on windows, I think this qualifies as a bug in the included makeindex.

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

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[]{fontspec}
\usepackage[czech]{babel}
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\usepackage[itemlayout=singlepar]{idxlayout}
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\newglossaryentry{second}{name = čokoláda, description = {Druhá položka}}
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\begin{document}
  Hello worls, \gls{first}, \gls{second} and \gls{third}
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  \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}
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  \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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