From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: rpgoldman@sift.info
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Making an index in latex export --- surprisingly difficult
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:35:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12644.1303886106@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> of "Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:58:41 CDT." <4DB74011.2020600@sift.info>
Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> wrote:
> >> 4. Modify the org-latex-to-pdf-process to
> >>
> >> ("pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f" "makeindex
> >> -o %b.ind %b.idx" "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory
> >> %o %f" "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory %o %f")
> >>
> >> [This was /somewhat/ of a big deal. Suggest we add support for indexing
> >> as a built-in option, like bibtex...]
> >>
> >
> > Maybe you can try the texi2dvi option (I think it runs makeindex), but
> > texi2dvi did have a bug that has caused problems here in the past:
> > that's the reason it's not the default setting for
> > org-latex-to-pdf-process. If you run into the bug but still want to try
> > texi2dvi anyway, see
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2010-03/msg00032.html
> >
> > for the fix Karl Berry applied to the development sources.
>
> Once one has makeindex hacked in there (oh, and you've broken the
> security!), it works fine, thanks.
> >
> >> an absolute pathname. But org-mode will only pass absolute pathnames to
> >> makeindex (AFAICT). Question: it seems like bibtex should suffer from
> >> this same restriction. Has anyone had that problem with it?
> >>
> >
> > I haven't had the problem, primarily because I haven't used bibtex
> > through org yet :-) But bibtex should exhibit the same problem: the
> > bibtex change predated the makeindex one. Maybe bibtex is only called
> > with a relative path (if that's the case, then the same method should
> > cure makeindex as well). BTW, ".." is not allowed in the relative path:
> > you can only use subdirectories of the current directory.
> >
Here's a step-by-step that uses texi2dvi[fn:1]:
o Download a bibliography file:
cd /home/nick/lib/bibtex
wget -nd http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub//tex/bib/linux.html
mv linux.html linux.bib
o Set the BIBINPUTS environment variable in .profile (or similar):
BIBINPUTS=/home/nick/lib/bibtex:$BIBINPUTS
export BIBINPUTS
o Set org-latex-to-pdf-process in .emacs (or similar):
(setq org-latex-to-pdf-process '("texi2dvi --pdf --tidy --batch %f"))
The --tidy keeps all the intermediate files tucked away in a subdirectory.
You can use --clean instead if you want automatic cleanup of intermediate
files.
That's all for one-time setup. There is no problem with bibtex/makeindex
security because all the output files end up in a subdirectory and (I guess)
texi2dvi uses relative pathnames.
Here's an org file with an index and a bibliography that is properly exported
to PDF with the above setup:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{makeidx}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \makeindex
#+LaTeX: \bibliographystyle{plain}
* this
#+LaTeX: \index{foo}
is a test of foo \cite{Torvalds:1999:LE}
#+LaTeX: \bibliography{linux}
#+LaTeX: \printindex
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Nick
Footnotes:
[fn:1] My egrep does not choke on the suspect [A-z] pattern that
texi2dvi uses, so I don't need Karl Berry's patch - if your egrep does
choke, the patch just changes the pattern to [A-Za-z] which although not
exactly the same, since it omits a few punctuation chars that come
between Z and a in ASCII[fn:2], is good enough.
[fn:2] The pattern tries to recognize legal drive names on DOS/Windoze,
and these characters are *legal drive names*!! We have Novell to thank
for that though, not M$. OTOH, if you are on Windoze and have a drive
named `[', watch out ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-27 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-26 21:09 Making an index in latex export --- surprisingly difficult Robert Goldman
2011-04-26 21:26 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-04-26 21:44 ` Robert Goldman
2011-04-28 9:28 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-04-28 11:04 ` Robert Goldman
2011-04-28 11:52 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-04-26 21:52 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-26 21:58 ` Robert Goldman
2011-04-26 23:14 ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-27 1:32 ` Robert Goldman
2011-04-27 6:35 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-04-27 7:38 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-09 6:08 ` Tom Dye
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