MakeIndex, Nomenclature, Glossaries and Acronyms ⇒ 0 entries accepted

[elisa freschi]

I am working on Mac OS X on a complex document and saving versions of it from time to time. From version 'p' to version 'q' I did not change anything in the preamble, yet the index can no longer be created. This is the error message I get:

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This is makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2012] (kpathsea + Thai support).
Scanning input file q...done (0 entries accepted, 2596 rejected).
Nothing written in q.ind.
Transcript written in q.ilg.

Whereas in the 'p' version I got a normal message such as:

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This is makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2012] (kpathsea + Thai support).
Scanning input file p.idx....done (326 entries accepted, 1 rejected).
Sorting entries......done (3018 comparisons).
Generating output file p.ind....done (164 lines written, 0 warnings).
Output written in p.ind.
Transcript written in p.ilg.

The file q.idx has been created too, and it looks like it should, i.e.:

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\indexentry{uha@\emph{ūha} (adaptation)}{x}
\indexentry{adesa@\emph{ādeśa} (substitute)}{1}
\indexentry{vikara@\emph{vikāra} (modification)}{2}

And so on. It is exactly identical to the p.idx file, although p.ilg is normal (whereas q.idg is quite wired, see below).

The preamble is quite long, but I tried to eliminate each of the packages one by one and this does not seem to make any difference. Moreover, the same preamble works fine with the index of version 'p'. Here is something closer to a MWE, omitting some packages and "makeatletter":

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\documentclass[14pt]{book} 
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{fancyhdr, blindtext}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
 
\usepackage[hang]{footmisc}
\footnotemargin1.8em

\makeindex
\author{}
\begin{document}
A minimal example of indexing\index{minimality} and a more complex one.\index{uha@\emph{ūha}}

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}
\printindex
\end{document}

The .ilg document is really wired:

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This is makeindex, version 2.15 [TeX Live 2012] (kpathsea + Thai support).
Scanning input file q...
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 1):
   -- Unknown index keyword \documentclass[14pt].
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 2):
   -- Unknown index keyword \usepackage.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 3):
   -- Unknown index keyword \usepackage[english].
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 4):
   -- Unknown index keyword \usepackage.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 5):
   -- Unknown index keyword \usepackage.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 6):
   -- Unknown index keyword \usepackage.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 7):
   -- Unknown index keyword %\usepackage.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 8):
   -- Unknown index keyword \usepackage.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 9):
   -- Unknown index keyword \usepackage.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 10):
   -- Unknown index keyword \usepackage.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 11):
   -- Unknown index keyword \usepackage.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 12):
   -- Unknown index keyword %\usepackage.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 14):
   -- Unknown index keyword %\usepackage.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 15):
   -- Unknown index keyword %\deffootnote.
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 17):
   -- Unknown index keyword \usepackage[hang].
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 18):
   -- Missing arguments -- need two (premature LFD).
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 20):
   -- Missing arguments -- need two (premature LFD).
!! Input index error (file = q, line = 21):[/quote]

And so on, including the text of the book itself, such as:[quote]

!! Input index error (file = tantra_s, line = 156):
   -- Unknown index keyword Thepresentstudyisacompleteversionofthepreliminarystudythatappearedas\cite.

Until:

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!! Input index error (file = tantra_s, line = 3668):
   -- Unknown index keyword \end.
done (0 entries accepted, 2596 rejected).
Nothing written in tantra_s.ind.
Transcript written in tantra_s.ilg.

Could it be that the makeindex command operates directly on the .tex file instead than on the .idx one? And why?

[cgnieder]

Hi Elisa,

welcome to the LaTeX community!

Can it be that you're running makeindex on the tex file instead of the idx file?

Regards

[elisa freschi]

Hi Clemens and thanks!
In fact, this is what seems to be happening. But I do not why .
I am not doing anything differently while typesetting the file 'p' or the file 'q' and the effect is the same with either TeXshop and TeXwork. May I beg for a neophyte-help?

[cgnieder]

I do not have either TeXworks nor TeXshop so I can't help there (someone else might). But maybe using imakeidx can circumvent the problem. It automatically takes care to run makeindex from within the (pdf)latex run. There's a blog post by the package author.

Regards

[elisa freschi]

Thank you Clemens. I still get the same notification of error ("0 entries accepted…"), but the .ind and .idx files are OK and the index is created.
Thank you very much!