I hadn't used the indexing tools for many (10?) years and had memories
of a tedious process but having now compiled another index, the process
is vastly improved -- with only one quibble: not enough built-in shortcuts.
1. The index-insert lfunction needs a shortcut.
2. Once in an index inset, pressing Return to create a subentry is
exactly right, but highlights the desirability of having shortcuts for
both see and see also references. (I found I inserted most of these 'in
a batch' after looking at the first draft of the index.)
I assigned my own shortcuts built around ctrl+; for index-insert,
ctrl+shift+; to insert see refs and ctrl+alt+; to insert see also refs
(the mnemonic is Shift for See, and ALt for ALso). In fact the shortcuts
were more complicated to take account of different situations (inset
filled with a word or not, word selected or not, word accepatable or
not), in the course of which I found myself wanting to put a
command-sequence inside command-alternatives. Is this possible? (Riki?
-- I see "rgh" introduced command-alternatives.)
Andrew
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