Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?

[Karl Berry]

    > many manuals have indexed items starting with a backslash that are
    > better indexed under a letter following the backslash (an example from
    > Texinfo's manual is \mathopsup, better indexed under "M"). 

I suppose this decision is already made, but I feel compelled to kibitz,
sorry: it is not clear to me either that \mathopsup in Texinfo is better
indexed under m, or that \ in general is better off ignored.

Wrt the general point: as far as I can imagine, the (vast) majority of
manuals indexing \ sequences would be for C-style \n, \r, etc.  As a
reader, I would certainly expect those to be indexed under \.

Wrt \mathopsup: since \ is a special character in Texinfo, I actually
found it reasonable and useful to have all the \sequences used in
Texinfo end up together in the index.  That way people can easily see
all those special \sequences.  There is no other easy way.

Of course, in regular TeX manuals, it is better to ignore the \ on
control sequence names, just as it is better to index Texinfo command
names without the @.  But there are relatively few Texinfo manuals
relating to TeX.

k