<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm confused about the following kinds of phenomena with MakeIndex:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1.When I have in my text file an entry </DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>\index{distance! in \mathbb{R}}, </DIV><DIV>it prints in the idx file as</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>\indexentry{distance!in @\@mathbb {R}}{1} </DIV><DIV>and then in the printed index prints as</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>mathbb{R}</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2.What am I supposed to do to get it to print as a blackboard-bold R? Furthermore, what about </DIV><DIV>user-defined macros (for example, I have one </DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>\Realsto[1] </DIV><DIV>which expands as</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>\ensuremath{\mathbb{R}^{#1}}</DIV><DIV>---how can I use it in an index-generating command</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>3.(for example, I have a macro </DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>\deffontcustom[2]</DIV><DIV>which expands as</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>\textbf{#1}\index{#2}</DIV><DIV>---do I do something different when entering an entry involving a macro like the one above?<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Zbigniew Nitecki</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Department of Mathematics</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tufts University</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Medford, MA 02155</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">telephones:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Office<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>(617)627-3843</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dept.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>(617)627-3234</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Dept. fax<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>(617)627-3966</FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>