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Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem? |
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Sat, 10 Oct 2015 10:06:24 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 21:51:31 GMT
> From: Karl Berry <address@hidden>
>
> 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.
So I guess we should have an option to enable/disable this feature,
since "one size fits all" clearly doesn't work here?
- Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?, (continued)
- Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?, Gavin Smith, 2015/10/09
- Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/09
- Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?, Gavin Smith, 2015/10/09
- Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/09
- Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?, Quinn Grier, 2015/10/09
- Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?, Gavin Smith, 2015/10/10
- Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/09
- Re: texinfo 6.0 texindex problem?, Aharon Robbins, 2015/10/10