[tex-eplain] indexing: wrong aplhabetic order

[Daniel Luecking]

At 06:20 PM 10/12/01 +0200, you wrote:
>When an item starts with \'e, or {\'e}, it is placed in the index (by 
>makeIndex) at the beginning of the aplhabet instead as beeing 
>regarded as starting with e. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Either define a command, \acuteaccentfirst say, that places an acute accent
on the first letter of its argument, then say
  \sidxmarked\acuteaccentfirst{etude}
or just do
  \sidx{etude@(\'e}tude}
The latter relies on the fact that makeindex sorts by the pre-@ text, but
outputs the post-@ text.

The \sidxmarked actually writes {etude@\acuteaccentfirst{etude}} to the
.idx file.

This is found of pages 17-18 of the manual, eplain.dvi . (At least in
MiKTeX 2.1 it is.)

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Daniel H. Luecking          luecking@uark.edu
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR 72701-1201