Re: Transforming XML or other intermediate representation of Texinfo; category system

[Robert Dodier]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 5:29 PM Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281@gmail.com> wrote:

> This somewhat resembles, at least in concept, indexes.  Perhaps what you
> really want is a set of custom indexes by tag?

It doesn't seem like indexes is the appropriate approach here. The
main problem is that each index has to be defined by @defindex, so
somebody, not Texinfo, has to trawl the document to discover what has
been mentioned as a tag or category or whatever we wish to call it.
There are other problems, e.g. indexes can't have spaces in their
names, so tags or categories such as "Complex variables" would have to
get fixed up somehow. Another problem is that the indexes to which an
item belongs are not shown on the item itself, but an important part
of the tag concept is that the set of tags for an item is shown on the
item.

best,

Robert Dodier