[l2h] Index entries include trailing format specifications
such as '|textbf'
Julius Smith
jos@w3k.org
Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:09:45 -0800
I discovered that index entries including a format specification, such as
keyword\index{keyword|textbf}
produce keys in the HTML index including the format spec, i.e.,
"keyword|textbf" appears in the final Index.html entries generated by
latex2html. This problem does not appear to occur when the makeidx package
is used (invoking styles/makeidx.perl). Below is a one-line fix that works
in all cases I have tested:
*** latex2html~ Fri Sep 28 14:17:52 2001
--- latex2html Sun Oct 28 12:30:44 2001
***************
*** 8322,8327 ****
--- 8322,8328 ----
}
$str = $current[$#current];
$str =~ s/\#\#\#\d+$//o; # Remove the unique id's
+ $str =~ s/\|(.*)$//; # Remove any trailing macro wrapper spec (NEW)
$index .= $index{$key} .
# If it's the same string don't start a new line
(&index_key_eq(join('',@current), join('',@previous)) ?
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Note that page 154 of Lamport (1994) gives some "fine print" about the
behavior of '|' in an index entry. E.g., it can be quoted by a preceding
`"' unless the `"' is preceded by `\'. Since this fine print does not seem
to be supported for `!', I didn't try to add it here. Due to prior
transformations on the index key strings, it would take a bit of research
to get this right.
Julius