[tex-k] bug report for makeindex

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

Hi Boris,

The multiple entering of the definition for the same symbol does
have many uses. Take for example, a book of Problems & Solutions
where you divide it in two parts:

One with Problems only, for the students who want to concentrate
on them (and not get exposed to the Solutions),

Another for students that want to explore the Solutions and do not
want to flip back to the Problems -- so then you list the Problems
again WITH the Solutions.

In this "type" of book the Problems are listed twice, and if they
have any nomenclature entries attached to them you get the
problem.

I am sidesteing it with a sed line:

    sed 's/}, \\nompageref{/, /' v10-broken.nls > v10.nls

but would be really nice to have the ability to process two
entries in different places of the book.

Paulo Ney


On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 4:44 PM Boris Veytsman <borisv at lk.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Pauolo and Karl!
>
>
> KB> I see that Boris is one of the nomencl maintainers, so cc-ing him so he
> KB> can weigh in and what should change here.
> KB> Boris, Paulo's original msg is here:
> KB> https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-k/2024-August/004093.html
>
> Here is the situation.  In the original design for nomencl the idea
> was that you enter the nomenclature for the given symbol only once,
> after the equation where the symbol is defined.
>
> I did not envisage the use case where you put nomenclature several
> times.  Here you basically use nomenclature as an index (something
> like "c, the speed of light, see equations (3), (4), (8--124)").
>
> Is this a common use case?  If yes, I need to rewrite some commands...
>
>
>
> --
> Good luck
>
> -Boris
>
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