Subject: References to backslash in Texinfo manual
From: Dieter Kaiser
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:31:48 +0200
Am Samstag, den 24.09.2011, 14:13 -0600 schrieb Robert Dodier:
> On 9/23/11, Dieter Kaiser <drdieterkaiser at web.de> wrote:
>
> > (%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.
>
> The file offset is incorrect, but it is not a character encoding problem.
>
> I've pushed a new version of build_index.pl which, I hope,
> will handle @cindex items correctly. (There are a lot of assumptions
> about how .info files are structured; @cindex items didn't fit into the
> assumptions. I hope it's right now.)
>
> Can you please give it a try & let me know how it turns out.
It works now. The entries "\" and "backslash" are present in the info-,
html- and pdf-file and it is possible to get the documentation with the
commands ? and ?? from a Maxima command line. I have checked it for the
English and the German version of the manual.
I have committed the new entries to the index.
Dieter Kaiser