Re: Feature request: multilevel indexing for TeX

[arnold]

Glad to hear it!  Enjoy.

Arnold

Raymond Toy <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 8:44 AM Raymond Toy <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for looking into this.  I think I'm getting confused on which
> > version of makeinfo and texindex.tex is getting used. (I have 3 version on
> > my system).
> >
>
> Redid this on a different system which had just one installed texinfo.  I
> installed the dev version into its own prefix, and everything works fine.
> The multi-level index looks great and of course works fine with html (in a
> different fashion, of course).
>
> Not sure what's going on with my other system, but I'm quite happy with the
> results on this system.
>
> Thanks for your hard work on this!
>
> >
> > I think the issue I reported here is that I was using pdftex to create the
> > doc.  Using makeinfo --pdf doesn't have that problem. But it complains
> > about something else. I want to make sure it's from the dev texinfo stuff
> > and not some older 6.6 (or earlier) version.
> >
> > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 2:54 AM Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/18/19, Raymond Toy <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > With my old hack.  With the new texinfo, I changed the macro to say
> >> >
> >> > @cindex \topic\ @subentry \subtopic\
> >> >
> >> > makeinfo --pdf foo.texi
> >> >
> >> > has errors like:
> >> >
> >> > Unde
> >> > fined control sequence.
> >> > \temp ->\xeatspaces {unix} \subentry
> >> >                                      \xeatspaces { pathnames}
> >> > \dosubindwrite ...mpty \xdef \indexsortkey {\temp
> >> >                                                   }\ifx \indexsortkey
> >> > \empty...
> >> >
> >> > \safewhatsit ... \else \vskip -\whatsitskip \fi #1
> >> >                                                   \ifx \lastskipmacro
> >> > \zeros...
> >> >
> >> > \dosubind ...dcsname }\safewhatsit \dosubindwrite
> >> >                                                   }\fi
> >> > l.2 ...s {unix} @subentry @xeatspaces { pathnames}
> >> >
> >> > \scanmacro ...\\=\active \scantokens address@hidden
> >> >                                                   \aftermacro \catcode
> >> > address@hidden
> >> > l.1657 @cpsubindex{unix, pathnames}
> >>
> >> I couldn't reproduce the problem. I found that @subentry worked OK
> >> with macros, although it is not surprising that there should be a
> >> problem here.
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ray
> >
>
>
> -- 
> Ray