> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 21:51:31 GMT > From: Karl Berry <[email protected]> > > Wrt the general point: as far as I can imagine, the (vast) majority of > manuals indexing \ sequences would be for C-style \n, \r, etc. As a > reader, I would certainly expect those to be indexed under \. > > Wrt \mathopsup: since \ is a special character in Texinfo, I actually > found it reasonable and useful to have all the \sequences used in > Texinfo end up together in the index. That way people can easily see > all those special \sequences. There is no other easy way. > > Of course, in regular TeX manuals, it is better to ignore the \ on > control sequence names, just as it is better to index Texinfo command > names without the @. But there are relatively few Texinfo manuals > relating to TeX.
So I guess we should have an option to enable/disable this feature, since "one size fits all" clearly doesn't work here?
