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Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co.
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Tim Landscheidt |
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Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co. |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:37:46 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Karl Berry) wrote:
> [...]
> but also in TeX which (for me at least) skews any cost-benefit ratio :-).
> :). No index sorting has ever been implemented in texinfo.tex. It's
> done with a separate C program, texindex, which remains essentially in
> its original state as of 1987 or so, sorting ASCII. Life goes on ...
Well, my user interface to texinfo is usually autotools, and
as that has been working forever, I had never bothered to
investigate the workflow :-). I had only skimmed the code,
but to me texinfo.fn looked like it is generated by code in
texinfo.tex and the right place to start:
| \entry{command}{83}{\code {command}}
If the third argument is the displayed text and the first
item is the sort key, "all" that needs to done would be to
output:
| \entry{command}{83}{\code address@hidden
for the input "@findex @@command" or a hypothetical
"@findexwithsortkey @@command command". (I'd prefer the
latter as it leaves more control to the user and doesn't
subject him to the mercy of collations.)
Tim
- [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co., Tim Landscheidt, 2012/03/19
- Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co., Tim Landscheidt, 2012/03/21
- Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co., Tim Landscheidt, 2012/03/23
- Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co., Karl Berry, 2012/03/25
- Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co., Patrice Dumas, 2012/03/25
- Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co.,
Tim Landscheidt <=
- Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co., Karl Berry, 2012/03/26
- Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co., Patrice Dumas, 2012/03/26
- Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co., Karl Berry, 2012/03/26
- Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co., Patrice Dumas, 2012/03/26
- Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co., Tim Landscheidt, 2012/03/27