running makeindex from a tex file (by shell scape)

[Vafa Khalighi]

Can you please tel me why this does not work with pdflatex --shell-escape
test

\documentclass{minimal}

\usepackage{makeidx}

\makeindex

\makeatletter

\renewcommand\printindex{%

\immediate\closeout\@indexfile

\immediate\write18{makeindex \jobname.idx}

\input{\jobname.ind}}

\makeatother

\begin{document}

This is a test.

\index{Test}\index{Exam}

\printindex

\end{document}

[Paul Isambert]

Post by Vafa Khalighi
Can you please tel me why this does not work with pdflatex
--shell-escape test
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\printindex{%
\immediate\write18{makeindex \jobname.idx}
\input{\jobname.ind}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
This is a test.
\index{Test}\index{Exam}
\printindex
\end{document}

What happens if you add \pdfshellescape=1 at the top of the file?

Paul

[Vafa Khalighi]

What happens if you add \pdfshellescape=1 at the top of the file?

Paul

! You can't use `\pdfshellescape' in vertical mode.
l.1 \pdfshellescape
=1
?

[Uwe Lueck]

Can you please tel me why this does not work with pdflatex --shell-escape test
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\printindex{%
\immediate\write18{makeindex \jobname.idx}
\input{\jobname.ind}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
This is a test.
\index{Test}\index{Exam}
\printindex
\end{document}

This may be a minimal example, but the posting still is of type "it doesn't work".
Why don't you say (precisely) what you experience with this code?

Anyway, I wonder whether you want to do what imakeidx does,

http://ctan.org/pkg/imakeidx

-- Uwe.

[Vafa Khalighi]

Post by Uwe Lueck
This may be a minimal example, but the posting still is of type "it doesn't work".
Why don't you say (precisely) what you experience with this code?

it makes .idx empty and so does not work as expected.

[Heiko Oberdiek]

Post by Vafa Khalighi
Can you please tel me why this does not work with pdflatex --shell-escape
test
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\printindex{%
\immediate\write18{makeindex \jobname.idx}
\input{\jobname.ind}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
This is a test.
\index{Test}\index{Exam}

\index needs the page number, therefore the write is delayed until
the page is shipped out.

Post by Vafa Khalighi
\printindex

The page with the \index commands isn't shipped out yet, but you
are already closing the .idx file. Therefore put a \newpage
at the beginning of \printindex.

Yours sincerely
Heiko Oberdiek

[Vafa Khalighi]

Post by Heiko Oberdiek
The page with the \index commands isn't shipped out yet, but you
are already closing the .idx file. Therefore put a \newpage
at the beginning of \printindex.

Thanks for the explanation. Even simpler putting

\immediate\write18{makeindex \jobname.idx}


before \documentclass, will do.

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Post by Vafa Khalighi

Post by Heiko Oberdiek
The page with the \index commands isn't shipped out yet, but you
are already closing the .idx file. Therefore put a \newpage
at the beginning of \printindex.

Thanks for the explanation. Even simpler putting
\immediate\write18{makeindex \jobname.idx}
before \documentclass, will do.

But this requires an extra run because you are using the .idx file
from the previous one. I thought that you want to create the index
immediately when the .idx file is complete.

Regards,
Reinhard

[Vafa Khalighi]

Post by Reinhard Kotucha
But this requires an extra run because you are using the .idx file
from the previous one. I thought that you want to create the index
immediately when the .idx file is complete.

a single or double run of pdflatex makes no difference for me actually. The
main thing for me was calling xindy within a tex file.