Re: Do not merge index entries with equal sort keys?

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:35:00 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
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> I am wondering if it wouldn't be better to have non-alphabetic
> characters at the end of the index instead of at the beginning.  I'd
> have to go see what books from O'Reilly and Pearson do to see what's
> normal in the publishing world.

The index of “The LaTeX Companion”, third edition (Addison-Wesley),
which has a length of 150(!) pages, starts with 'Symbols', followed by
'Numbers', then 'A', 'B', etc.


    Werner