Re: Texinfo indexing

[David Kastrup]

Jean-Charles Malahieude <address@hidden> writes:

> Le 14/06/2016 à 10:47, David Kastrup a écrit :
>>>
>>> Huh, I have to try.  I just remember that we likely are still using
>>> texi2html for our web page generation, and I have no idea how _that_
>>> does the indexing.  If we can only create better sorted indices for PDF
>>> and/or Info, that would be sort of a let-down.
>>
>> A cursory glance would suggest that the following commands are entered
>> both with and without backslash via @funindex:
>>
>> \accepts
>> [...]
>>
>
> This one appears only once, labeled "\accepts" with notation.pdf.

Documentation/de/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/de/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex accepts
Documentation/de/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/de/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex accepts
Documentation/de/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/es/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/es/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex accepts
Documentation/es/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/es/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/fr/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/fr/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex accepts
Documentation/fr/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/fr/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/it/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/it/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex accepts
Documentation/it/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/it/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/ja/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/ja/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex accepts
Documentation/ja/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/ja/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex accepts
Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts
Documentation/notation/changing-defaults.itely:@funindex \accepts

> Even more, there is only one target (so to say only one place where
> both versions are mentioned) for "accepts" vs 3 targets when
> @set txiindexbackslashignore
> is specified in common-macros.itexi.
>
> BTW this make a 6 pages less volume.
>
> If texi2any follows the same rule, it would be the same, I guess for
> the HTML version. For the moment I'm still stuck withe the same errors
> and unable to dig further in the switch from texi2html that, sooner or
> later, will disappear from distros.

Sigh.

-- 
David Kastrup