Re: Loosing my mind with indexes...

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:

Karl>     I know makeinfo works indeed, but I'm stuck because at other
Karl> parts of my document, it is makeinfo which does a bad job.

Karl> 1) "bad job"?

Yep: feeding this

| @table @samp
| @item @var{r}*
| zero or more @var{r}'s.
| 
| @item @var{r}+
| one or more @var{r}'s.
| 
| @item @var{r}?
| zero or one @var{r}'s.
| 
| @item @address@hidden@address@hidden
| @var{num} times @var{r}
| 
| @item @address@hidden@var{min},@address@hidden
| anywhere from @var{min} to @var{max} (defaulting to no bound) @var{r}'s.
| @end table

to makeinfo -E leaves the ovar invocation above unexpanded, but given
that the definition of ovar is now stripped, it no longer compiles:

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> @var address@hidden@ovar 
                           address@hidden
@tclose ...enation @rawbackslash @frenchspacing #1
                                                  address@hidden 
@samp #1->address@hidden {#1}
                       '@null 
@next ...bleindent @setbox address@hidden address@hidden {#1}
                                                  address@hidden address@hidden 
@...
l.6568 @item @address@hidden@address@hidden



Karl> 2) don't use macros. Macros suck.

I have understood that bit, but it s*ks :(