[Tex/LaTex] Trouble with Texlipse and creating index

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I have my project configured in Texlipse to create an index and I am issuing the \printindex command towards the bottom of my root TEX file. I have my files organized in a tree structure as indicated in my question here. When the project builds, the IDX file is properly generated and contains the terms I have placed in the index. The tool places the file however not in the intermediate folder but in the same folder where my root TEX file resides. I could live with that but, unfortunately, no index appears in the compiled document. Is this possibly a bug in Texlipse or do I need to do something else in order to include the index in my output document?

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The makeindex problem in TeXlipse is well-known. I guess that it is a bug in TeXlipse.

I found a solution in my environment: Clean your project, here is important that no output.pdf file exits after that! Than build it again, for some unknown reasons now I have a index in my new pdf.

Another solution is to replace the pdflatex.exe in your build settings with an batch-script witch calls pdflatex - makeindex - pdflatex. There you can control witch files are used but of course it is not the right way to bypass TeXlipse here.

EDIT

I found another nice way to run additional programs during the build process in this Question: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/52549/11363

You can use it to run a makeindex manually for several conditions.

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When LaTeX sees your \addcontentsline command, it has already finished typesetting the index. So if this is longer than one page, the reference to the page number will be wrong. Do

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I have duplicated your set up and files and they work fine if you use the expected compile sequence.

You need to run pdflatex first to generate the .idx file. Then you need to run makeindex to create the needed .aux file. And finally you need to run pdflatex again to get the PDF file. Note it will located in the build directory.

The shortcuts which work very smoothly is to have your main .tex file in the open TeXmaker window. Then press F6, wait for compile to complete. Then press F12 to run makeindex. Wait for the index to complete. Now run F6 again to rerun pdflatex. Wait. Finally run F7 to view the PDF file.

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