Re: [Maxima-discuss] A package for working with p-adic numbers

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2019-08-20, José A  Vallejo Rodríguez <jos...@gm...> wrote:

> I have created a .texi file for the padics.mac package:
> https://github.com/josanvallejo/padics
> I have compiled it to create an html version of the documentation and it
> looks fine, including the index. However, when I run makeinfo on
> padics.texi, the resulting padics.info file does not have the index
> (everything else is fine, though). Am I doing something wrong?

By index I assume you mean the documentation index which the Maxima
online help system (? and ??) reads. The documentation index is created
by the Perl script doc/info/build_index.pl in Maxima. I created an index
for padics by this command:

  perl path/to/doc/info/build_index.pl padics.info > padics-index.lisp

I committed padics-index.lisp to the padics project a few minutes ago.

After loading the index, e.g. load("path/to/padics/padics-index.lisp");
then ? and ?? find documentation items for padics. E.g. ?? padic finds
many items.

Hope this helps,

Robert Dodier