Re: overfull lines with @url in @raggedright

2019-03-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I made a change in commit b3987a0 to remove the extra stretch around > some characters in URL's but to allow ragged right formatting within > URL's. It will break anywhere allowed within a URL no matter how > much space is left on the line. This produces acceptable results > (IMHO) for the in

Re: Feature request: multilevel indexing for TeX

2019-03-03 Thread Gavin Smith
On 3/3/19, Gavin Smith wrote: > I went looking for past emails about the reasoning behind the choices > of escape char but found nothing. Did you look into this when you > wrote texindex? Karl wanted the escape character to change for index files: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/20

Index entry "see" or "see also" (was Feature request: multilevel indexing for TeX)

2019-03-03 Thread Gavin Smith
On 3/3/19, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > If that's the case, then texindex could also special case stuff like > > \entry {espresso makers, see coffee makers}{23}{espresso makers, see > coffee > makers} > > as input and and turn it into > > \entry {espresso makers, see coffee makers}{} >

Re: Feature request: multilevel indexing for TeX

2019-03-03 Thread Gavin Smith
On 3/3/19, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > A few questions. > > 1. texindex.awk has provision for both \ and @ to be the command character > (\entry vs. @entry). Do we still need that? Or will it always be backslash? I think it could change to @ at some point. The toc and aux files do use @ as the esc

Re: Feature request: multilevel indexing for TeX

2019-03-03 Thread arnold
Hi. > Maybe it will just have to be accepted that out-of-date versions of > texindex shouldn't be used with multi-level index entries, otherwise > the index will appear somewhat mangled. I think we just have to say that. > Implemented as @subentry in git commit 372cfab. > > A test file is attach

Re: overfull lines with @url in @raggedright

2019-03-03 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:28:59AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > I was thinking something like \hfil\allowbreak\hskip 0pt plus -1fil > > to allow a break at particular characters wherever they occur in the > > line with the rest of the line being filled up with empty space, but > > this probably