Re: texinfo to docbook - enhancement request

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi Karl.

> Hi Arnold,
>
>         @cindex main topic, secondary point, tertiary point
>         ...
>       <indexterm><primary>main topic</primary><secondary>secondary 
> point</secondary><tertiary>tertiary 
> point</tertiary></secondary></primary></indexterm>
>
> Well, as you know, support for the usual index features has been on the
> todo list forever.  I can't imagine having the time and energy to deal
> with them in the foreseeable future.  (Maybe some new person would like
> to drive Texinfo?)

That's OK. I'm looking just for a makeinfo change.

> Anyway, as a workaround for your immediate needs, maybe Patrice can
> point you to a hook into the Docbook output where you can tinker with
> the index output easily enough.  Patrice?

I'm willing - although hoping that Patrice could tackle it for me. :-)

> (BTW, if it were me, I would not use commas, because commas are often
> used in index entries without any desire for subterms.  Even when the
> index does support subterms.

This is why we invented @comma{} way back when. :-)

> Some magic character like | seems like it
> would be better.  But of course for real support one would want
> @commands anyway.)

Yes. I have thoughts about what kind of "real support" is needed but
I can do without it for now. Having commas in @cindex do primary,
secondary and tertiary would really help, though.

Thanks,

Arnold