[email protected] (Karl Berry) wrote:
> [...]
> but also in TeX which (for me at least) skews any cost-benefit ratio :-).
> :). No index sorting has ever been implemented in texinfo.tex. It's
> done with a separate C program, texindex, which remains essentially in
> its original state as of 1987 or so, sorting ASCII. Life goes on ...
Well, my user interface to texinfo is usually autotools, and
as that has been working forever, I had never bothered to
investigate the workflow :-). I had only skimmed the code,
but to me texinfo.fn looked like it is generated by code in
texinfo.tex and the right place to start:
| \entry{command}{83}{\code {command}}
If the third argument is the displayed text and the first
item is the sort key, "all" that needs to done would be to
output:
| \entry{command}{83}{\code {@command}}
for the input "@findex @@command" or a hypothetical
"@findexwithsortkey @@command command". (I'd prefer the
latter as it leaves more control to the user and doesn't
subject him to the mercy of collations.)
Tim
