Subject: References to backslash in Texinfo manual
From: Dieter Kaiser
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:49:37 +0200
Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2011, 22:24 +0200 schrieb Dieter Kaiser:
> 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.
I think there is something wrong with the reading of info files in
Maxima.
I have tried several ways to add an entry to the index. It is possible
with the commands @findex, @vindex, ... At last I have tried the command
@cindex to distinguish the new entry from the existing indices and I
have added a second command @synindex cp fn to combine the index cp with
the index fn.
In all cases I have got correct entries for the html-, pdf-file, and the
info-file, when reading it with info, but not when reading the info-file
from Maxima.
This is the place in section 5.2.1 "Introduction to Strings" I have put
in the index entry:
@cindex backslash
Strings may contain any characters, including embedded tab, newline, and
carriage return characters.
[...]
If I ask for the documentation I get a wrong answer.
(%i1) ? backslash
ators with respect to radicals to take effect.
`ratalgdenom' has an effect only when canonical rational
expressions (CRE) are used in algebraic mode.
This looks like the problems we have with the German info files, because
of wrong offsets.
Dieter Kaiser