Re: Printing a special index alone and including it in the general idex

Gavin Smith <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Nov 2025 19:16:18 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general
Message-ID <aQ5FglaU864bcKn_@orangestar>
On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 02:06:02PM -0500, Benjamin Kalish wrote:
> Thanks, Gavin. Will the line macro play nicely with indexing commands such
> as @subentry and @seeentry?

It should do so, yes, but the only way to be sure is to try it.

Historically, macros in Texinfo have not been very reliable in different
contexts, although we hoped that @linemacro would be more reliable
than @macro as it avoids the complication of attempting to ignore the
final newline of the macro body.