Re: [help-texinfo] Index entries for "@command" & Co.

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:30:17AM +0000, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> 
> Another issue just came up on bison-patches: Collapsing:
> 
> | doc/bison.texinfo:@deffn {Macro} YYERROR;
> | doc/bison.texinfo:@deffn {Statement} {return YYERROR;}
> | doc/bison.texinfo:@deffn {Macro} YYERROR
> 
> to one YYERROR index entry
> (cf. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.parsers.bison.patches/5152
> and
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.parsers.bison.patches/5157).
> So in this case, not only the sort key would have to be
> changeable, but also the index entry itself.
> 
>   Do you see a consistent syntax to incorporate such a fea-
> ture (or another solution to the problem)?

The only think I can think of would be to be able not to issue an
automatic index entry with the @deff* and let the user put himself an
@*index entry.  In analogy with @table (no index entry) versus 
@ftable/@vtable (with automatic index entries).

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Pat