[OS X TeX] Entering specially formatted items in the index
Alain Schremmer
Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 00:31:03 CEST 2006
Morten Høgholm wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:49:36 +0200, Alain Schremmer
> <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Another one of my bizarre requests:
>>
>> I want to enter the metric prefixes in the index but I am using a
>> special format for them that \index does not recognize as such:
>>
>> (1) \denom is defined in the preamble as follows
>>
>> \DeclareMathAlphabet{\denom}{OT1}{cmss}{sbc}{n}
>>
>> (2) Then, for instance, DEKA is formatted as follows
>>
>> $\denom{D\mathsmaller{EKA}}
>>
>> (3) but the following does not work
>>
>> \index{$\denom{D\mathsmaller{EKA}}$}
>
>
> Assuming the definition
> \newcommand*\DEKA{\ensuremath{\denom{D\mathsmaller{EKA}}}}
> you should be able to get by with just
> \index{DEKA@\DEKA}
Would there be a way other than entering one definition for each metric
prefix?
Hopeful regards
--schremmer
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