Re: [help-texinfo] command index and unified index

[Graham Percival]

On 18-May-06, at 3:54 PM, Karl Berry wrote:

>     Another possible workaround is to duplicate every @findex with 
> @vindex
>
> Ah, good thought.
>
> I hate to say it, but you might even be able to do that with a macro, 
> so
> you only have the one command in the source ...

Hmm, there are two problems with this:
1.  (minor)  Macros use {}, whereas the normal @index entries don't.
2.  (major)  We need to write @macroname{\\command} to get \command in 
the index.

Of course, writing
@findex \foo
@kindex \foo
will also be awkward, but I know enough sed to create these 
automatically.  Future docs will require manually adding them, though.  
Actually, I suppose that we might encounter some commands which we want 
to exclude from the "command index", so splitting these up wouldn't be 
so bad.


Thanks for your great program; I only mention these problems in case 
you know of a workaround or an alternate solution.  I'm content to go 
with writing @findex @kindex.

Cheers,
- Graham