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

[Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz>]

tags 416941 wontfix
close 416941
thanks

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 20:44 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> 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?

Hi Frank, thank you and your team for the brilliant TeX Live 2005 and
2007 packages!

I have discovered the AMS Author FAQ addresses this:
<http://www.ams.org/authors/author-faq.html>

How can I create multiple indexes for my (AMS-LaTeX) book?

      * Use the package amsmidx.sty. With this package, you can compile
        files of index terms (.idx files) for as many indexes as you
        want, to be processed by MakeIndex, and included in your book.

      * The non-AMS packages on CTAN for multiple indexes are
        incompatible with the AMS LaTeX document classes.

For this reason I'm closing the bug report as wontfix.

Regards,
Adam