Hi. Sorry for the slow reply. Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The existing \primary macro does not take a page argument. This could > be used to give you: > > coffee makers > electric ........... 32 > > To get > > coffee makers ..... 15, 21 > electric ........... 32 > > you would use \entry instead of \primary. > > See attached files: these work with the current texinfo.tex. Nice. > Another idea: > > @cindex coffee makers @sub electric @sub pink I like this one. It is similar to @tab in tables. You could then do: @cindex @sortas{...} coffee makers @sub @sortas{...} electric @sub @sortas{...} pink I.e., each term could have its own (optional) @sortas clause. > I remember there were problems with the positioning of @sortas: I'd like > to see if they could be fixed. Can you elaborate? > > Could we do \tertiary also? Or is that asking too much? > > I don't see why not, it would just require more sorting logic in > texindex. Excellent. If you can give me a clear spec on the input and output to texindex I can dive into it. (When you have one, of cousre.) I'm pretty sure I still have committer rights to the project. > > How do we move forward? > > Think of more problems that might occur and send mail about them. See above. :-) > Wait for me to implement it, or learn enough TeX and Perl, and enough > about the Texinfo codebase to implement it yourself. Otherwise it is > quite likely I will get to this some time in the next month. I am starting to learn about TeX. It's a hard hill to climb though... Much thanks! Arnold