Thank you for the report; I will look into it when I have time.
On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, 14:42 Georg-Johann Lay, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> using texinfo 6.7, I ran into the following problem:
>
> Writing documentation for a ${variable} feature, "${variable}" should
> appear in the index also under "{". Hence I added a @sortas somethink
> like that:
>
> @cindex $@{variable@} @sortas{@{variable}
>
> However, the entry appears in section "$".
>
> IIUC, @sortas should also work for special characters? It appears to
> work with --pdf output but not for HTML.
>
> What also does not work is:
>
> @cindex $@{variable@} @sortas{@lbracechar{}variable}
>
> Johann
>
>
> p.s. please CC me in your answer to bug-texinfo@, I am not subscribed to
> this list.
>
>
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