Subject: References to backslash in Texinfo manual
From: Dieter Kaiser
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:24:32 +0200
Am Montag, den 19.09.2011, 23:37 -0600 schrieb Robert Dodier:
> Hi, I got this message:
>
> > My request is this: Could \ be added to the index, to refer the
> > user to the introductory material in Section 5.2.1?
>
> Section 5.2.1 is about strings and among other things
> it describes what effect backslash has in a string.
> Is there a way to make a reference to that section so
> that someone looking for "\" or "backslash" can find it?
> I tinkered with using @anchor but I couldn't get it to work.
>
> I suppose in addition there should be a reference to the
> section about symbols, 6.3 "Identifiers". (Hmm, I suppose
> that should be renamed to "Symbols".)
>
> I hope someone can handle this --
It is necessary to put "backslash" and "\" into one of the indices.
Available indices are @findex for functions and @vindex for variables.
The environments @deffn and @defvr do this automatically, but it is
possible to add any name by hand.
I will commit it.
Dieter Kaiser