On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 02:55:43PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote:
> but to me texinfo.fn looked like it is generated by code in
> texinfo.tex
>
> Certainly true. I thought we were talking about Unicode sorting here,
> not the indexed Texinfo commands lacking @.
>
> Anyway, the problem in this case is not so much the implementation but
> that there is no user-level way to specify a sort key. I'm not happy at
> the idea of making up a new command like @findexwithsortkey. However, I
> guess we could do a new command used within the indexing commands, as in
> @findex @sortkey{command} @@command
>
> (Patrice, wdyt?)
It should not be too hard to implement, I guess. And it is not
especially weird. There is the issue of leading and preceding spaces
for @sortkey{..}. Do we say something explicit on those?
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Pat
