[OS X TeX] makeidx error

[John Vokey]

Bruno and Mohinish,
   Thank you.  apacite (as opposed to apacitex) is supposed to be an 
indexless version (at least according to the documentation): the 
[noindex] option, again according to the documentation, is supposed to 
used to turn author indexing off in apacitex, but be non-functional 
(although harmless) in apacite.  Apparently not.

   However, it doesn't work in any case.  It still throws the same fatal 
error at \printindex, apparently no matter what I do.  I'll contact 
Erik Meijer, the author.

On 30-Apr-05, at 6:00 PM, TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List wrote:

> Hi,
> indeed, apacite messes up makeidx.
>
> you should use apacite with the [noindex] option for makeidx to work
>
> (sorry if this is late, I was away)
> Mohinish
>
>
> On 28 Apr 2005, at 3:24 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 28 avr. 05, à 02:50, John Vokey a écrit :
>>
>>> I am baffled.  The only other packages I am loading are:
>>> \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
>>> \usepackage{longtable,apacite,rotating,picinpar}
>>>
>>> none of which should redefine \printindex
>>
>> One does, indirectly: apacite.sty (not a standard part of gwTeX, you
>> must have got it from CTAN) calls index.sty in which you find
>>
>>> \def\printindex{\@ifnextchar[{\@printindex}{\@printindex[default]}}
>>>
>>> \def\@printindex[#1]{%
>>>     \@ifnextchar[{\@print at index[#1]}{\@print at index[#1][]}%
>>> }
>>>
>>> \long\def\@print at index[#1][#2]{%
>>>     \def\@indextype{#1}%
>>>     \long\def\index at prologue{#2}%
>>>     \@ifundefined{idx@#1}%
>>>         {\@latexerr{Index type `\string#1' undefined}\@ehc}%
>>>         {%
>>>             \edef\@tempa{\@nameuse{idx@#1}}%
>>>             \edef\@tempa{%
>>>
>>> \noexpand\@input@{\jobname.\expandafter\@second\@tempa\@nil}%
>>>             }%
>>>             \@tempa
>>>         }%
>>> }
>>
>> This applies to CTAN's version
>> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/apacite/
>> apacite.sty> of 2004/07/01.
>>
>> Bruno Voisin
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Micro-Cognition Laboratory
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University of Lethbridge
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