Bug#215925: additional info
franks_spamtrap@gmx.de (Frank Küster) schrieb:
> Thomas Pichler <taupi@aon.at> schrieb:
>
>> I forgot to mention that in larger documents a situation like the one
>> in my example above leads to error messages in places which are in no
>> way related to using things like "$\mathbf{x}$" in chapter titles
>> not followed by a section-command.
>> Took me some time to find the culprit...
>
> It seems that tetex brings a wrong version of index.sty. It is generated
> from index.doc, as it says, and the only index.doc on CTAN is in
> macros/latex209/contrib/misc. I will investigate this.
Well, it's like this:
- on CTAN, there are only 2 alternatives for index.sty, the one in tetex
and the one in macros/contrib/camel/index.dtx.
- The one in tetex is for 2.09
- The one in camel is claimed as beta, and camel itself is alpha;
however it hasn't been changed for reasons I don't know¹
I will further try to find out reliable information on the status of
camel/index.dtx, and perhaps suggest upstream to include it. For the
time beeing, maybe you want to have a look at makeidx.sty and the
various alternative ways to generate multiple indices, like splitindex
or the approach of nomencl.sty & Co. which duplicate the indexing
commands to produce different kinds of indices.
Bye, Frank
¹In fact it says that development is stalled until bibtex 1.0 comes out;
we are at bibtex 0.99c - which probably means that its functionality is
that of a 1.0. I don't know how fast bibtex version number change.
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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