Re: [help-texinfo] Feature Request: New <c>table options for other built-in indices

[Robert Weiner]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

On 23 July 2016 at 15:01, Robert Weiner <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> wrote:
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>> and maybe the index file should contain "C-c \@" instead
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> I'll give that a try.  -- Bob

No, your document was correct. It's the change to texinfo.tex that
makes the difference. If you can, please try the latest version of
texinfo.tex in the SVN repository that I've committed.

​Your new Texinfo.tex resolved that problem.  Thanks very much.

A

​n unrelated issue I found is if you run the file I sent and look in the Key Index, you'll see some keys are surrounded by braces and some are not.  This is because when using an @ktable and @kitem macro​, the braces are added to the auto-generated index item in addition to the item itself, whereas in other places where we do the kindex manually, we don't add the braces.  I think the index reads a bit better without the braces, so it would be nice if the braces were added only to the table item and not its index entry.  I found a workaround for this by using @table @asis and then making the @kitem macro itself add both the @kindex and @item entries where the brace surrounding macro is only part of the @item.  This of course defeats the purpose of having the @ktable in the first place, for me, but is no more work to implement.  And I guess some people might want the braces in the index for consistency.

In summary, I am able to do everything I need to do right now and just need to keep aware of these small formatting issues when doing my markup.

Thanks again.

Bob