Possible bug in makexindex

[Zdenek Wagner]

Maybe I am too sleepy but it seems to me that the example on
StackExchange uses \vspace in the horizontal mode, thus it does not
expand to a simple \vskip but to \vadjust. What happens if you use
\vskip 0.5em instead of \vspace{0.5em}?

Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/

st 7. 8. 2024 v 23:04 odesílatel Frank Mittelbach
<frank.mittelbach at latex-project.org> napsal:
>
> Am 07.08.24 um 22:53 schrieb Karl Berry:
> > Has to be plain TeX (actually initex, but I can probably do that part)
> > in order to have any chance of running as a compile-time test. lm> That
> > is not the impression I get from reading TLC3, part II page 358. Does
> > the makeindex documentation have anything to say about this case?
>
>
> the man page contains more or less what TCL contain here
>
> see entry for item_01 and item_x1
>
> I think it is pretty much saying what should happen and that doesn't
> happen in the example
>
>   ie if there is
>
>    item
>      subitem
>
> item_01 should be used
>
> and if it is
>
>    item <page-number(s)>
>      subitem
>
> then item_x1 should be used instead (and same for 12 level entries,
> which may or may nort have the same bug)
>
> frank
>
> sorry no time to generate a plain tex example (not done with my keynote
> and close to lave for the US)
>
> frank