On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 10:07:10PM +0100, Rik wrote: > > It's easy enough to implement but I don't see the problem with having the > > index entry linked to the referenced page. Is it just that some entries > > are a different colour if links are coloured? > > Yes, that's right. Octave's manual chooses to use a different color for > hyperlinks than for ordinary text, just as HTML does. This is obviously > useful for indicating to the reader what is ordinary text and what is active > text. In the index we have some links that point to a single page and other > that point to multiple pages. The result of that is sort of like a dog with > mange in that there are blotches of black and blotches of rust red link > color.
Perhaps it would be acceptable to link the index entry text to the first page listed if there are several? Then all the index entries would be linked avoiding the "mangey dog" effect you mention.
