Bug#534641: Processed: Re: mendexk: mendex fails to process styling macro specifier in indexentry

[Hisashi Morita <hisashim@workbook.org>]

Mon Dec 31 2012 05:26:44 GMT+0900 Frank Kuester <frank@kuesterei.ch>:
Subject: Re: Processed: Re: mendexk: mendex fails to process styling
macro specifier in indexentry

> I have no idea what this is about and why it should be a bug in
> texlive-binaries.  mendexk does not even depend on texlive-binaries.
> 
> Hisashi-san (or is it Morita-san?), could you please describe in detail
> what you did, that is
> 
> - provide a minimal (La)TeX input file that produces the
>   mendexk/makeindex input
> 
> - name the commands you use to produce the output files

Thank you for your reply, Frank-san. Excuse me for the lack of clear
explanation and minimum reproducible example, which is as follows:

---- LaTeX input file (min.tex):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\begin{document}
Lorem.
\index{foo|(}
\index{foo|mac}
\index{foo|)}
\end{document}

---- produced mendex/makeindex input file (min.idx):

\indexentry{foo|(}{1}
\indexentry{foo|mac}{1}
\indexentry{foo|)}{1}

---- output file from mendex (min.ind) (expected):

\begin{theindex}

  \item foo, \mac{1}, 1

\end{theindex}

---- output file from mendex: (min.ind) (actual):

\begin{theindex}

  \item foo, 1}, 1

\end{theindex}

---- commands to produce the output files above:

$ latex min.tex
$ mendex min.idx

----

The reason I assumed this issue is relevant to texlive-binaries is as
follows:

$ which mendex
/usr/bin/mendex
$ dpkg -L texlive-binaries | grep bin/mendex
/usr/bin/mendex
$ dpkg-query -W texlive-binaries
texlive-binaries        2012.20120628-4

Thank you very much for maintaining the packages.

regards,

Hisashi MORITA