[OS X TeX] Entering specially formatted items in the index

[Victor Ivrii]

On 8/25/06, Alain Schremmer <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Morten Høgholm wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:14:38 +0200, Alain Schremmer
> > <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Well, I guess this is what I get for thinking up these bizarre formats.
> >
> >
> > Well, not that bizarre. I use pretty much the same in one project I'm
> > working on...
>
> Would it be considered bizarre to want to enter {   } into the index?

Poisson brackets \{ , \}

looks like reasonable index item


>
> I tried, of course without hope since MakeIndex is so literal,
>
>     \index{\{\;\}}
>
> for which I got
>
>     " ";"
>
> Variations on the theme didn't work any better and Companion 2 ed
> doesn't seem to address the issue in its long chapter on Indexing.
>

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