Hi Ross,
>
>>it seems as if latex2html processes the content of an index command
>>very differently then latex, instead of treating them verbatim
>>they are normally processed so that for instance a % sign in
>>an index leads to ignoring the rest of the input line ?
>
>Yes, that's right.
>LaTeX2HTML has no concept of category-code, so the meaning of a symbol
>cannot change according to context in the same way that it can do in TeX.
>
>
>> what happens with an index\index{%} if it contains
>> special characters like \%, \$, etc.
>> \LaTeX\ handles them correctly, latex2html doesn't.
>
>To be honest, I'm really surprised that \index{%} works in LaTeX.
>Yet indeed it does make it into the .idx file, ...
>
>...BUT...
>
>...it is treated as a comment when read back in from the .ind file.
>So it is effectively a comment all along, and your code is in error.
>Instead you should use \index{\%} .
No, here I don't agree. This feature of latex is very nice because
you can use your own post filtering technique to generate
the final theindex from the idx file.
Ben
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