On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:35:33 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:06:03 +0900
> Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
>
>> How do you install xindy under AlmaLinux release 9.6 (Sage Margay),
>> Amazon Linux release 2023 (Amazon Linux), CentOS Stream release 9,
>> and the likes?
>
> I didn't install it there.
>
> Yet, on some distros it seems that this is packaged together with
> a texlive collection package and it is called during pdf build.
>
> This was also causing font issues. So, I added an option at
> latex_elements to ensure that, if used, it will request UTF-8 fonts:
>
> latex_elements = {
> # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
> "papersize": "a4paper",
> "passoptionstopackages": dedent(r"""
> \PassOptionsToPackage{svgnames}{xcolor}
> % Avoid encoding troubles when creating indexes
> \PassOptionsToPackage{xindy}{language=english,codepage=utf8,noautomatic}
> """),
>
> I just built manually on almalinux. There, all pdfs built fine:
Ah, xindy is optional then.
Got it!
Sorry for the noise.
Akira
