On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 03:54:04AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > I have some documentation and one of the items is @deffn adjoint. I'd
> > like to have another item, adjugate, of some type, which just says
> > something like 'adjugate: see adjoint.'
> >
> > Is there a kind of @foo that I could use for adjugate that's
> > appropriate here? I guess I could make a @deffn adjugate and then have
> > the body of the description just say 'see @xref{adjoint}' or something
> > like that. But maybe this kind of redirection is already defined
> > somehow.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no way to make an index entry refer to another
> one like this.
>
> That isn't really right, @deffnx is the right way of doing this, and
> then one can use @anchor to define the reference.
Of course, you are right here. I was thinking of putting the
cross-reference directly in the index entry, which isn't possible. If
you have two items you want to document together, of course you can use
@deffn and @deffnx. Thanks.
