Re: backslashes, macros, indexes, texinfo

[Gavin Smith]

On 8 August 2015 at 22:05, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'd like to make the @macroargdummy token completely disappear at some
>> point, but maybe it isn't possible.
>
> Doing \def\macroargdummy{} in \scanmacro also makes the files I tried
> work. It didn't the first time I tried, maybe because I had stale
> index files.

That last patch I posted doesn't work properly when a macro defines an
index entry, because of changes in the active definition of backslash
down under the definition of \cindex (\normalturnoffactive underneath
\commondummies).

Here's a change that I think's nicer, which does the expansion of the
active backslash earlier as an extra stage of expansion.

macroargbackslash-simpler.diff
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