Re: Colon in index items

[Richard Stallman]

    > But maybe there is a way to get reasonably good results without
    > changing the format, by writing something different into the index.

    All the discussions up to now failed to find such a possibility.  But
    perhaps we missed something--could you give an example of a kind of
    change you had in mind?

Makeinfo could change `:' to `colon' when writing the index in Info
format.  The character `:' would still appear as itself in TeX and
other formats.  This is not perfect, but it should be easy
and would give better results than changing the input.