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Re: [gnutls-dev] Function indices in the manual
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: [gnutls-dev] Function indices in the manual |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:44:10 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hi,
>
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>> * The "function index" of the manual mixes Scheme procedures and C
>>> functions. In theory it might be possible to create separate
>>> indices but since address@hidden' automatically adds functions to the
>>> function index, it would not be convenient.
>>
>> It may be possible to re-define the function index somehow, perhaps we
>> could ask on the texinfo list about this. I think it would be cleaner
>> to have a separate C API index and Scheme API index. Although it is not
>> important to fix this before the first releases.
>
> I asked the Texinfo people about this:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general/1015
Thanks for asking!
> Apparently, the only way to separate indices with current Texinfo would
> be by abusing the variable index, for instance, which doesn't look very
> nice to me.
No, not really... I think we'll leave it as is until texinfo is improved
to allow this more easily.
/Simon