Generating index when compiling document

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

WHat I am seeing is that texindy is not (properly) installed. I would
figure out to which slackware package texindy belongs (probably texlive)
and reinstall that.

el

On 02/12/2022 16:33, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, Herbert Voss wrote:
> 
>> Rich, export your document to LaTeX, go into the directory of
>> the exported code and then run
>> pdflatex <file>
>> texindy file.idx
>> then you'll see what happens. If you know the temporary directory
>> of the LyX files, you can also run texindy in that directory with the
>> current filename.
> 
> Herbert,
> 
> Yesterday I ran texindy on the *.idx file in /tmp; today produced the same
> result.
> 
> Exported document to latex (pdflatex).
> $ pdflatex biota-to-set-wq-standards.tex
> $ texindy biota-to-set-wq-standards.idx
> texindy: not a symlink as required for TeX Live at /usr/bin/texindy line
> 414.
> 
> I posted the relevant portion of that script yesterday. Can provide it
> again
> if needed.
> 
> I'll see if the Slackware-15.0 texlive has the texindy perl script and will
> use that to replace 2021-04-18 version in /usr/bin/.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich