Re: [help-texinfo] How to make a redirect to an existing item
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.
Re: [help-texinfo] How to make a redirect to an existing item
> 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.
@deffn Function adjoin
@deffnx Function adjugate
@anchor{Definition of adjoin}
@anchor{Definition of adjugate}
Frobnicate the adjugation by doing an adjoin on the frob.
@end deffn
@xref{Definition of frob} for awesomeness.
You could also do "@deffn .. adjugate", followed by a @xref{Defintion
of adjoin}, but that is kinda ugly.
Re: [help-texinfo] How to make a redirect to an existing item
On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 12:49:09PM -0700, Robert Dodier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
[help-texinfo] How to make a redirect to an existing item
Hi,
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.
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.
Robert Dodier
