Hi Karl.
> Hi Arnold,
>
> @cindex main topic, secondary point, tertiary point
> ...
> <indexterm><primary>main topic</primary><secondary>secondary
> point</secondary><tertiary>tertiary
> point</tertiary></secondary></primary></indexterm>
>
> Well, as you know, support for the usual index features has been on the
> todo list forever. I can't imagine having the time and energy to deal
> with them in the foreseeable future. (Maybe some new person would like
> to drive Texinfo?)
That's OK. I'm looking just for a makeinfo change.
> Anyway, as a workaround for your immediate needs, maybe Patrice can
> point you to a hook into the Docbook output where you can tinker with
> the index output easily enough. Patrice?
I'm willing - although hoping that Patrice could tackle it for me. :-)
> (BTW, if it were me, I would not use commas, because commas are often
> used in index entries without any desire for subterms. Even when the
> index does support subterms.
This is why we invented @comma{} way back when. :-)
> Some magic character like | seems like it
> would be better. But of course for real support one would want
> @commands anyway.)
Yes. I have thoughts about what kind of "real support" is needed but
I can do without it for now. Having commas in @cindex do primary,
secondary and tertiary would really help, though.
Thanks,
Arnold
