[texhax] expansion in makeindex

Micha Hofri hofri at WPI.EDU
Sat May 27 04:50:07 CEST 2006


Uwe,

      inserting \protect in front of the \mathbb in the index entry 
solved a long-standing problem --- thanks.  But why does it have this 
effect?

--Micha

At 01:35 on 05/27/06 Uwe Lück sent:

: What about \protect\mathbb and \protect\Realsto within \index{...}?
: HTH -- Uwe.
: 
: At 17:59 26.05.06, Zbigniew Nitecki wrote:
: >I'm confused about the following kinds of phenomena with MakeIndex:
: >
: >1.When I have in my text file an entry
: >\index{distance! in \mathbb{R}},
: >it prints in the idx file as
: >\indexentry{distance!in @\@mathbb {R}}{1}
: >and then in the printed index prints as
: >mathbb{R}
: >
: >2.What am I supposed to do to get it to print as a blackboard-bold 
: >R?  Furthermore, what about
: >user-defined macros (for example, I have one
: >\Realsto[1]
: >which expands as
: >\ensuremath{\mathbb{R}^{#1}}
: >---how can I use it in an index-generating command
: >
: >3.(for example, I have a macro
: >\deffontcustom[2]
: >which expands as
: >\textbf{#1}\index{#2}
: >---do I do something different when entering an entry involving a macro 
: >like the one above?
: >
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