Re: Feature request: multilevel indexing for TeX

[arnold]

Hi. Sorry for the slow reply.

Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> The existing \primary macro does not take a page argument.  This could 
> be used to give you:
>
>   coffee makers
>      electric ........... 32
>
> To get
>
>   coffee makers ..... 15, 21
>      electric ........... 32
>
> you would use \entry instead of \primary.
>
> See attached files: these work with the current texinfo.tex.

Nice.

> Another idea:
>
> @cindex coffee makers @sub electric @sub pink

I like this one. It is similar to @tab in tables.

You could then do:

  @cindex @sortas{...} coffee makers @sub @sortas{...} electric @sub 
@sortas{...} pink

I.e., each term could have its own (optional) @sortas clause.

> I remember there were problems with the positioning of @sortas: I'd like 
> to see if they could be fixed.

Can you elaborate?

> > Could we do \tertiary also? Or is that asking too much?
>
> I don't see why not, it would just require more sorting logic in 
> texindex.

Excellent.  If you can give me a clear spec on the input and output
to texindex I can dive into it. (When you have one, of cousre.)
I'm pretty sure I still have committer rights to the project.

> > How do we move forward?
>
> Think of more problems that might occur and send mail about them.

See above. :-)

> Wait for me to implement it, or learn enough TeX and Perl, and enough
> about the Texinfo codebase to implement it yourself.  Otherwise it is
> quite likely I will get to this some time in the next month.

I am starting to learn about TeX. It's a hard hill to climb though...

Much thanks!

Arnold