Re: backslashes, macros, indexes, texinfo

[Gavin Smith]

On 8 August 2015 at 21:27, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> All I can think of at the moment is not to add the dummy token at the
> end of the argument, and not use the backslash as the last character
> of the argument of the macro. It will work sometimes, depending on
> which token a final backslash absorbs, but there are likely cases when
> this could cause a problem as well.
>
> I'd like to make the @macroargdummy token completely disappear at some
> point, but maybe it isn't possible.

Doing \def\macroargdummy{} in \scanmacro also makes the files I tried
work. It didn't the first time I tried, maybe because I had stale
index files.

macro-backslash-empty-dummy.patch
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