Re: Support for package names in defvr/deffn

[Raymond Toy]

A @sortas for this would be a nice addition.

But anyway, your solution would work fine.  For one project I already use m4 macros to do things that texinfo can't so I just to write some more for this case.

Thanks!

On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 2:44 AM Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

On 5/18/19, Raymond Toy <address@hidden> wrote:
> In writing/updating an old doc to use texinfo, there are entries like
>
> @defvr Constant extensions:short-float-positive-infinity
> @defvrx Constant extensions:short-float-negative-infinity
> @defvrx Constant extensions:single-float-positive-infinity
>
> This all works, but the Common Lisp package name "extensions" causes
> everything to be added to the index all at the same place.  Is there a way
> to make this ignore the package name "extensions".

I don't think so. I think the best way to support this would be to
have a command that would output just like @defvr but would not create
an index entry. The index entry would have to be created separately.

A workaround is not to use the vr index at all and to create index
entries in a separate index, like this:

@defcodeindex va

@vaindex short-float-positive-infinity
@vaindex short-float-negative-infinity
@vaindex single-float-positive-infinity
@defvr Constant extensions:short-float-positive-infinity
@defvrx Constant extensions:short-float-negative-infinity
@defvrx Constant extensions:single-float-positive-infinity

And output the index with "@printindex va" instead of "@printindex vr".

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Ray