[XeTeX] polyglossia, makeidx: Missing control sequence \inaccessible

[Taylor Venable]

Ah, thanks very much, using \protect fixed it.

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:

> Am Sat, 15 May 2010 23:20:12 -0400 schrieb Taylor Venable:
>
> > Hello, I just updated my TeXlive 2009 installation the other day from
> CTAN
> > and am having a problem with some shortcut macros I was using to make
> > indexing easier.  I have a shortest working example attached as test.tex,
> > and the log file as well.  I've summarised the things which can and can't
> be
> > changed in the test file.  Essentially, if I have a \newcommand which
> > creates an index entry and specifies the output formatting of that entry,
> > while using Polyglossia, I get an error.  The error is:
> >
> > ! Missing control sequence inserted.
> > <inserted text>
> >                 \inaccessible
> > l.7   \item {\ttfamily  \def r
> >                               m{tt}lambda}, \hyperpage{1}
> >
> > Which originates from the .ind file produced by makeindex.  The error is
> > sort of an obvious problem: that \def should not be there!  :-)
>
> Polyglossia redefines \ttfamily, it adds \def\familytype{tt} to it -
> obviously to save the "type" of the font. \familytype is also
> redefined by \rmfamily and \sffamily.
>
> But now \ttfamily is no longer robust. You can avoid your problem
> with \protect:
> \newcommand{\broken}[1]{\index{#1@{\protect\ttfamily #1}}}
>
> But I think polyglossia should change its definitions and make the
> commands robust.
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
>
>
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