Latex-workshop: Index style file -o .nls not found.

[BjoernDaase]

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Running makeindex thesis.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o thesis.nls via commandline works perfectly fine without any errors. Running pdflatex afterwards creates an index as expected.

1. Add the following step to your build toolchain

 {
            "name": "makeindex",
            "command": "makeindex",
            "args": [
                  "%DOCFILE%.nlo",
                  "-s nomencl.ist",
                  "-o %DOCFILE%.nls"
            ]
}

to have makeindex working (I followed #384).

1. Run a recipe containing this step

{
            "name": "pdflatex ➞ bibtex ➞ makeindex ➞ pdflatex ➞ pdflatex",
            "tools": [
              "pdflatex",
              "bibtex",
              "makeindex",
              "pdflatex",
              "pdflatex"
            ]
}

1. Result

Index style file -o thesis.nls not found.
Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p num] [idx0 idx1 ...]

Expected behavior
I get no error and the building proceeds.

Desktop [Required]:

• OS: Arch Linux
• VS Code version:
  1.34.0
  a622c65b2c713c890fcf4fbf07cf34049d5fe758
  x64
• Extension version: 7.0.0

[jlelong]

I think you need to split "-s nomencl.ist" into two arguments, the same for -o %DOCFILE%.nls. If it does not help, please post the complete logs of the extension.

[BjoernDaase]

@jlelong Ahhh...
That's kind of unintuitive but works perfectly.

[jlelong]

This is because every entry inside args is automatically surrounded by an extra pair of quotes when passed to the spawn function.