Re: @fnindex in html output vs info?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Raymond Toy wrote:
> On a related note, maxima has a few things like "@fnindex Logical
> conjunction".  These show up in the info file.  However, I can't find that
> anywhere in the html file(s).  Is that a bug too?

It looks like a bug.  Probably because some assumptions in the code on
which of f and fn index prefix can be used where, maybe when there is
index merging.  It is somewhat strage that they appear in Info and not
HTML, it reinforces that this is likely a bug.  I will investigate.

> 
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 3:26 PM Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 03:14:47PM -0700, Raymond Toy wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 3:03 PM Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 10:56 PM Raymond Toy <toy.raymond@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > In the maxima user manual, there are few explicit uses of @fnindex.
> > > > These show up in the info file in the "Function and Variable Index" as
> > > > expected.
> > > > >
> > > > > However, these don't show up in the corresponding "Function and
> > Variable
> > > > index" section in the html file.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this expected?
> > > >
> > > > No, it's not expected at all.
> > > >
> > > > @findex is the more common name of the command but I expect that
> > > > @fnindex should work as well.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Maybe it's because of these:
> > >
> > > @synindex ky fn
> > > @synindex vr fn
> > > @synindex cp fn
> > >
> > > I don't know why they're there except to merge everything into the
> > fnindex.
> > >
> > > But perhaps I should change them to be @findex instead, since it seems
> > > that's the normal way of saying it.
> >
> > @synindex is there to merge the indices together, as you said.  Everything
> > in the four indices should be output by "@printindex fn".
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ray