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Re: [help-texinfo] Feature Request: New <c>table options for other built
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: [help-texinfo] Feature Request: New <c>table options for other built-in indices |
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Mon, 25 Jul 2016 19:33:03 +0100 |
On 23 July 2016 at 21:25, Robert Weiner <address@hidden> wrote:
> An 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.
OK, so you are not using @ktable at all? I think we should remove the
implementation of this command, under the principle of not
implementing something that no-one wants.