Re: Index sorting commands work only in TeX backend?

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 10:30:16PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> 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.

I have finally had a go at implementing these options. Please feel free 
to try it out in the latest SVN development sources. The @sortas command 
and the @set txiindex...ignore options should now take effect in the 
HTML output as well as Info.