On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 10:30:16PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > On 15 June 2016 at 16:40, Gavin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 15 June 2016 at 11:38, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> don't seem to have an effect on the index in the resulting Info file. > >> That's a bit lack-lustre and makes the feature considerably less useful. > >> While the Info file tends to be navigated with key sequences rather than > >> by looking explicitly in the index, the same does not hold true for > >> HTML, and the average user these days is more likely to be using HTML > >> than either Info (with its key navigation) or PDF (which is the only > >> backend apparently supporting index sorting criteria). > >> > > > > You are right, it is not implemented for anything other than the TeX > > backend. I haven't looked at how easy it would be to implement for the > > other output formats. I hadn't thought about someone looking at the > > HTML index manually, so I agree it would be useful to be able to > > control the sorting there as well. > > I think it would be reasonably easy to implement. I probably won't do > it myself in the immediate future (say the next month or so), but it > would be a good project for someone who wanted to get to grips with > the texi2any code. If anyone is interested in this, please feel free > to email. If not, I'll likely get to it eventually.
I have finally had a go at implementing these options. Please feel free to try it out in the latest SVN development sources. The @sortas command and the @set txiindex...ignore options should now take effect in the HTML output as well as Info.
