Re: Index sorting commands work only in TeX backend?

[Gavin Smith]

On 15 June 2016 at 16:40, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15 June 2016 at 11:38, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> don't seem to have an effect on the index in the resulting Info file.
>> That's a bit lack-lustre and makes the feature considerably less useful.
>> While the Info file tends to be navigated with key sequences rather than
>> by looking explicitly in the index, the same does not hold true for
>> HTML, and the average user these days is more likely to be using HTML
>> than either Info (with its key navigation) or PDF (which is the only
>> backend apparently supporting index sorting criteria).
>>
>
> You are right, it is not implemented for anything other than the TeX
> backend. I haven't looked at how easy it would be to implement for the
> other output formats. I hadn't thought about someone looking at the
> HTML index manually, so I agree it would be useful to be able to
> control the sorting there as well.

I think it would be reasonably easy to implement. I probably won't do
it myself in the immediate future (say the next month or so), but it
would be a good project for someone who wanted to get to grips with
the texi2any code. If anyone is interested in this, please feel free
to email. If not, I'll likely get to it eventually.