On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Paul Foley <p...@mises.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Taylor Venable <tay...@metasyntax.net>wrote:
>
>> Hello, I just updated my TeXlive 2009 installation the other day from CTAN
>> and am having a problem with some shortcut macros I was using to make
>> indexing easier. I have a shortest working example attached as test.tex,
>> and the log file as well. I've summarised the things which can and can't be
>> changed in the test file. Essentially, if I have a \newcommand which
>> creates an index entry and specifies the output formatting of that entry,
>> while using Polyglossia, I get an error. The error is:
>>
>> ! Missing control sequence inserted.
>> <inserted text>
>> \inaccessible
>> l.7 \item {\ttfamily \def r
>> m{tt}lambda}, \hyperpage{1}
>>
>> Which originates from the .ind file produced by makeindex. The error is
>> sort of an obvious problem: that \def should not be there! :-) If I remove
>> Polyglossia, it works.
>>
>
> If I delete the .ind file and run xelatex/makeindex/xelatex it works fine.
>
That's sort of the crux of the problem, because with
\usepackage{polyglossia}, running xelatex (for me at least) creates the
faulty .idx file, which then causes makeindex to produce a faulty .ind
file. Without using the polyglossia package, xelatex produces a correct
.idx file and all is well. At least on my system with a clean, fully
updated TeXlive 2009 installation, of course.
--
Taylor C. Venable
http://metasyntax.net/
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