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Hi TeXers

I am having problems with makeindex. I find that it produces a large
number of warning messages (approx 20% of my \index entries have warnings
about unmatched range opening and closing). Furthermore, it messes up
a lot of the ranges, and seems to interpret |(} as a special in some cases
as I get entries backslashes and braces where there shouldn't be any.
LaTeX chokes on the results with lost of `missing $ inserted' messages.
This occurs with the makeindex that is shipped with the Dell SVR4 TeX
distribution, as well as the version I have under DOS (emTeX). The .idx
file produced by LaTeX is perfect; it is the .ind file produces by makeindex
that is full of rubbish.

Has anyone else experienced this problem, and is there an easy solution
other than going in by hand each time and fixing the .ind file?

BTW, I have checked the ranges in the .idx file very carefully, and there
are *no* unmatched ranges. The problem is definitely with makeindex.

Thanks in advance
Graham


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