Re: Loosing my mind with indexes...

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

Eli> On 31 Jan 2002, Akim Demaille wrote:

Eli> Well, how about telling more about those problems?  Perhaps they
Eli> have solutions.
>> Eli, I have sent many bug reports here, and I've been told it could
>> not work.
>> 
>> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-texinfo/2001-November/004498.html

Eli> But that thread ended with a suggestion I made that worked for
Eli> you.  So what changed since then that it now doesn't work?

Yep, it works, but that's just not what I want!  The suggestion,
stripped down, is:

        Make a new macro for each _use_ of @ovar you would liked.

While I want

        Use a single macro in any place.

So I agree a solution was provided, in the sense that this case is
solvable.  But then?  What do I do if I have another item which wants
to use ovar, but at a different place?

I agree I have a work around.  But it's worse than not using macros at
all.  In other words, I should have to throw away the idea that
primitives/macros are logical (@acronym, @code, @option) and allow me
to structure the output (which is important since at the end I'm
aiming at DocBook), vs. a plain format (@i, @r, @sc).  You're asking
me to throw away the very reasons that makes me like Texinfo :(