Bug#416941: texlive 2007-1: amsbook class and index package incompatibilities

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Adam,

sorry for not answering earlier.  Currently we're being drowned in
release-critical and important bugs, and this one just got too low a
priority. 

Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz> wrote:

> Test program:
>
> \documentclass{amsbook}
> \usepackage{index}
> \makeindex
> \begin{document}
> \tableofcontents
> \end{document}
>
> Result:
[...]
> [RERUN]
> $ pdflatex test.tex
[...]
> ! Extra \endgroup.
> \old@starttoc ...\global \@nobreakfalse \endgroup
>                                                   \newpage
> l.5 \tableofcontents
>
> ?

This happens with teTeX-3.0, too, and although I cannot test it at
present, I bet it also happens with TeX Live 2005.  

The AMS stuff is getting bugfixes, but only slowly, index is not
maintained any more IIRC.  Therefore I fear there's not much hope that
it will be possible to use both together soon.  Have you tried
makeidx.sty instead?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)