Re: Colon in index items

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>       Let's assume that we have a manual 
>     about C++ classes, which describes a class `foo'.  Then it will probably 
>     document methods like `foo:foo', `foo:~foo', and `foo:bar'.  As a user 
>     who reads that manual and looks for the methods from that class, I'd try 
>     typing "i foo: TAB".  Is that what you have in mind as well?
> 
> Yes.  And either way the result would failure, since the menu
> item in the index won't start with `foo:'.

You are again comparing with the temporary kludge I made in the Emacs 
manual.  I would never think about doing something similar in a manual 
about C++, because it will never work there.

So I suggest to judge the proposal on its own, not as compared to the 
temporary change that doesn't pretend to be a general solution.

> Let's quickly change Makeinfo to convert colon to `<colon>'
> and change the Emacs manual sources back.

If the problem with Emacs manual is with the printed copy, I can put a 
@iftex there that would produce a literal colon in print.  Would that be 
okay?