A @sortas for this would be a nice addition. But anyway, your solution would work fine. For one project I already use m4 macros to do things that texinfo can't so I just to write some more for this case.
Thanks! On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 2:44 AM Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/18/19, Raymond Toy <toy.raym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In writing/updating an old doc to use texinfo, there are entries like > > > > @defvr Constant extensions:short-float-positive-infinity > > @defvrx Constant extensions:short-float-negative-infinity > > @defvrx Constant extensions:single-float-positive-infinity > > > > This all works, but the Common Lisp package name "extensions" causes > > everything to be added to the index all at the same place. Is there a > way > > to make this ignore the package name "extensions". > > I don't think so. I think the best way to support this would be to > have a command that would output just like @defvr but would not create > an index entry. The index entry would have to be created separately. > > A workaround is not to use the vr index at all and to create index > entries in a separate index, like this: > > @defcodeindex va > > @vaindex short-float-positive-infinity > @vaindex short-float-negative-infinity > @vaindex single-float-positive-infinity > @defvr Constant extensions:short-float-positive-infinity > @defvrx Constant extensions:short-float-negative-infinity > @defvrx Constant extensions:single-float-positive-infinity > > And output the index with "@printindex va" instead of "@printindex vr". > -- Ray
