General ⇒ Problem with package ngerman

[Juggl3r]

Hello everone!

I have to write a text for university with Latex, but i don't get it work.
I use Miktex + Texniccenter and we got a example .tex file, but I'm not able to convert the .tex file to a .pdf file:

If I onley try to build there occures this error message:
My Pdf-vieber appears and says that there was a error by opening.
Next Texniccenter give me this error:
[DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")]
The command cannot be executed

And in the error-log file there stands:
Couldn't find input index file ....name.idx
where name is the name of my .tex file.

When I delete the line:
\usepackage{ngerman}
and build again...
it is all working, but the error with .idx file is still there.

So what do I wrong? How can I use the ngerman package and how to solve the .idx Problem?

[Montag]

Use

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\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

instead of the ngerman package.

The other problem with the AR should not have anything to do with the package ngerman.
Here are the things you have to insert for your DDE commands from top to bottom:

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[DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")]

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[DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocOpen("%bm.pdf")]

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[DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocClose("%bm.pdf")]

For your problem with the makeindex file, you need to add ".idx" behind "%bm", so that it says

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"&bm".idx

. And if you configured a style yourself, and you want to use it you can add it with "-g -s style-file-whatever-its-name-is.sty".
So in the end it should look like

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-g -s style-file.sty" "&bm".idx

.
If I remember correctly.

Next time do an online search first, please ...

[localghost]

[…] So in the end it should look like

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-g -s style-file.sty" "&bm".idx

.
If I remember correctly. […]

The correct command line parameters for MakeIndex look slightly different.

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-s <style-file>.ist -g "%bm"

Best regards
Thorsten

[Montag]

Hm, last time (1 year ago) I used MakeIndex, TXC didn't want to use like the way you wrote it. Had a weird problem.

[localghost]

Hm, last time (1 year ago) I used MakeIndex, TXC didn't want to use like the way you wrote it. Had a weird problem. [...]

Works smoothly with TXC1 RC1 and TXC2 alpha 2 (Build 1071). The correct sequence of the command line arguments is determining, especially when using -g for German sorting. And the suffix *.ist is mandatory for index style files. With Xindy there is a much better tool for generating an index. Somewhere there also exist executables for MiKTeX.

[Montag]

Oh, damn! Right, it is ".ist", not ".sty". That I totally overlooked, sorry.