General ⇒ Index Creation

[chaneyfrank]

Help,
Im new to latex, and have successfully created my first project, which is a book. I want to finish the book by creating an index at the end of the document. I have succeeded, but have encountered a small problem,
When the index is compiled, the text or word selected for the index is placed in the index and prints successfully, but removes the selected text or word from the document. I use MiKTeX version 2.8 and quite like it. The code I use is as follows.

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\documentclass[12pt, openany, a4paper,]{book}
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
\usepackage{makeidx}

\makeindex

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents 
\input{filename.tex}
\printindex
\end{document}

Can anyone help to solve this problem?

[paul]

What do you mean "removes the selected text or word from the document"? Are you doing "blah blah \index{foo} blah blah" and expecting "blah blah foo blah blah" to appear in your book? Doesn't work like that. You need to say "blah blah foo\index{foo} blah blah", with "foo" appearing twice (or write a macro to do the same).

[VijayKParmar]

Hi I tried creating an Index in the amsbook documentclass with the code listed above. I don't get an Index just more complilation errors.

[cgnieder]

You you please provide a minimal working example that recreates the error? The following works nicely:

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\documentclass[12pt, openany, a4paper,]{book}
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
\usepackage{makeidx}

\makeindex

% I don't know your filename.tex so I provide my own:
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{filename.tex}
\chapter{Blah}
\section{Blah Blah}
\index{Sample entry}
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\input{filename.tex}
\printindex
\end{document}

Regards

[VijayKParmar]

Thanks cgnieder. I tried your code on TeXCenter -no luck. In fact it creates a file which uses up all of the CPU!! I have to delete it.
First thing to notice is in \documentclass{amsbook}
\usepackage{makeidx} doesn't work
There is a clash
in
\documentclass{book}

no clash but still no index! In the older templates which cam with TeXCenter the index was automatic!

[cgnieder]

Well, the errors produced with amsbook say

! LaTeX Error: Command \see already defined.

and

! LaTeX Error: Command \printindex already defined.

which suggests that amsbook provides its own indexing commands. So just leave makeidx out:

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\documentclass{amsbook}
\makeindex

% I don't know your filename.tex so I provide my own:
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{filename.tex}
\chapter{Blah}
\section{Blah Blah}
\index{Sample entry}
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\input{filename.tex}
\printindex
\end{document}

Regards