From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200007122051.WAA24993@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: Making entries in the function index of libc.tex
In-Reply-To: <200007121958.WAA07785@mailgw1.netvision.net.il> from Eli Zaretskii at "Jul 12, 2000 10:58:41 pm"
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:51:45 +0200 (MET DST)
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> > From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:48:29 +0200 (MET DST)
> > 
> > My *rand48 functions are documented in a single .txh page, which
> > results in one entry in the alphabetical listing. I'd like to have
> > each one of the functions appear in the index (which then points to
> > the same, one and only page). Is this easily attainable?
> 
> I don't see any way of doing this except if you change mkdoc.cc.
> 
> Why would you want to do that, in this single case, anyway?  There are
> quite a few other functions that are documented as a family: spawn*,
> _far*, to name a few.

It's a little worse for *rand48 than for e. g. spawn*: the wildcard is
in the front. If you're looking for "spawnl", your are looking at
"spawn<something>" and you'll quickly find "spawn*", whereas if you're
looking for erand48, you'll be looking at "endpwent" and "errno", not
finding "rand48".


Right,

							MartinS