Re: [help-texinfo] No index in PDF manual

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Hi Gavin,

Thanks a lot for the prompt check and reply.

On 3/30/19 10:43 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> I notice that it is the latest version of texinfo.tex that is being
> used.  I had never uploaded that version to ftp.gnu.org; I expect
> somebody has got the file directly from the git repository.  In any
> case, it is useful that you are testing it.

Yes, in Gnuastro we use Gnulib which is also configured to import 
`texinfo.tex', and I pulled Gnulib changes yesterday.

> It could be related to the change to use @ as the escape character in
> the index files.  Could you try running "texindex gnuastro.fn" and
> "texindex gnuastro.cp" and having a look at the contents of
> gnuastro.cps and gnuastro.fns afterwards?  Then you could try running
> "pdfetex gnuastro.texi" to see if the PDF file is created with the
> indices.

This worked! After manually running `texindex' on the `gnuastro.cp' and 
`gnuastro.fn', the PDF created by `make pdf' has indices. So is this due 
to a mis-match between the `texinfo.tex' and my running Texinfo (with 
the former being newer)?

> Running "texi2pdf --verbose gnuastro.texi" might give more information
> about why texindex is not being run or not being run properly.

The raw command didn't work because of all those imported files, so I 
manually added `--verbose' in the Makefile where it calls `texi2pdf', 
and ran `make pdf'. It is indeed printing more information, you can see 
the result attached. Is it detecting the new format with the following 
message?

/usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: New xref files      = gnuastro.cp

Thanks a lot,
Mohammad

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