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Re: `@findex` within paragraph doesn't work


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: `@findex` within paragraph doesn't work
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 02:10:42 +0000

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:00:00AM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 02:20:41PM +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > 
> > (1) Introduce something like my suggested `@set txiindexinpara`.
> > (2) In version 7.1, make `@set txiindexinpara off` the default.
> > (3) In version 7.1, announce that you are going to change the
> >     behaviour of `@XXindex` in 7.2.
> > (4) In version 7.2, make `@set txiindexinpara on` the default.
> 
> I do not think that we should use a @set txi* to do that, as it
> is for something that could be changed multiple times in the document.
> It probably would be better to have a command without argument, like
> 
> @indexcommandstoppara
> 
> such that it is clear that it is one time for the whole document and
> cannot be reset.

This may be ok but it might not be necessary if we can tweak the
parse tree with some transformation to associate index entries
in @table appropriately.  I doubt I'll have time to look into this
issue deeply enough until the weekend.



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