Thanks for the explanation Asmus. tex Asmus Freytag wrote: > > At 02:33 PM 12/30/01 -0500, Tex Texin wrote: > >It is a bit inconsistent and therefore confusing. > > > >I searched for "bidirectional" which immediately pointed me at the > >general punctuation pages in a pdf file. > >Searching for "bidrectional" in that file turns up empty. > > This is one of the few cases of an index entry that has no corresponding > line in the nameslist file. Usually the index entry is derived directly > from the character names and aliases, or the text of the block names and > sub headers. That's the reason you couldn't find "bidirectional" in the pdf > file. The subheaderin this case is just "Formatting characters" and that's > not very specific. > > >If you search > >for left-to-right, right-to-left, override, or embed, there you do get > >to the characters. However a saving grace is that when you are first > >pointed at the general punctuation file, the character code 202A is > >mentioned, so if you notice that you can go right to the character > >range. > > I'll make sure that is clearly worded in the instructions. > > >Maybe the initial index needs to be more comprehensive. It is usually a > >difficult task for any large book to get right. However, tracking the > >web queries might help improve it over time... > > The problem you encountered was one where the index is already more > comprehensive and detailed than the nameslist. ;-) > > One could monkey with the nameslist, adding the subheader for the > bidirectional controls, but then we would pick up a number of one-character > ranges with subheaders, which becomes awkward in itself. > > A./ > > PS: I'm in the process of updating the HTML files for the index to match > the contents of the Index-3.2.0dnn.txt file in the BETA directory. That > file covers the new 3.2 character names etc. but does not pick up new or > revised aliases and subheaders in the existing repertoire...
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