Re: exist, configure, doc2tex and \index

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 11 August 2006 01:46 pm, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> Few minor things:
>
> 1. In ./configure, shouldn't strings "(EXPERIMENTAL)" be removed now?
> Won't be "nice" for 4.2.

Are you sure you are looking at the current source?
That EXPERIMENTAL marking was removed 12 June 2006.

> 2. Gnuplot supports both exists('a') and exist('a'), but documents
> only one of them. As it was me who made this confusion, I would
> propose to keep only exist('a').

I would rather allow the extra 's' since it is more natural in
English.  Do you really care about 1 extra character in the source code?

> 3. doc2tex.c produces the following in the .tex file:
>
> (see {\bf start-up (p.~\pageref{start-up})\index{up}}) and, of
> course, by later explicit changes.
> see {\bf mouse variables (p.~\pageref{mouse
> variables})\index{variables}} for details.
> See {\bf fit error\_estimates (p.~\pageref{fit
> error_estimates})\index{estimates}}.
>
> as you see, there appears "up" keyword in the index, and similar. See
> the code in doc2tex.c, below line:
>  	/* Make the final word an index entry also */
> I propose to keep the whole word including "-" and "_".

I suppose that is reasonable.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA