On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 21:07:04 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 08:19:45AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 04:29:25PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: >>> Hi Paul, >>> >>> This is another round of *never-ending* indexing updates. >> >> Maintaining indexes is non-trivial, no two ways about it! >> >> So special thanks for this series! >> >> At some point, for the index entries with lots of references, it may >> be necesary to flag the most important references. I sometimes see >> such entries italicized or marked with "ff", though I freely confess >> that I have no idea what the rationale for "ff" might be. > > And I did find this. The "ff" stands for "folios following", where > "folio" is used in the sense of "page". So "368 ff" means "page 368 > and some number of subsequent pages." > > I have spent most of my life fooled into thinking that "ff" indicated > the most significant page for a given index item. But there is some > connection, at least assuming that a longer discussion of a given term > is a more significant discussion of that term. ;-) So, prompted by your comment, I'm experimenting change of page number styles referenced in index. You can see a WIP tree at: -------- The following changes since commit 6eca56ccde0839f4ea81c5f02ddbe4c7c97e225f: Fix a typo in Bibliography (2022-01-12 09:48:13 -0800) are available in the Git repository at: https://github.com/akiyks/perfbook.git tags/WIP-index-page-style-2022.01.14 for you to fetch changes up to cc9e388aee6cd72ed757fa0ec193b8e35f2bbaff: index: Retouch prenote layout (2022-01-14 17:41:30 +0900) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Akira Yokosawa (6): Initial indexformat support locking, defer: POC of bold face page number in index defer: POC of hierarchical index with modifier part's case preserved index: Add prenotes of legends in Index pages index, glossary: Add underline for pages in Glossary index: Retouch prenote layout defer/rcu.tex | 2 +- defer/rcufundamental.tex | 2 +- defer/rcuintro.tex | 2 +- glossary.tex | 176 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- glsdict.tex | 10 ++- locking/locking.tex | 4 +- perfbook-lt.tex | 67 +++++++++++++++- utilities/adjustindexformat.pl | 20 +++++ utilities/runlatex.sh | 2 + 9 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-) create mode 100755 utilities/adjustindexformat.pl -------- This is not yet ready for pull. I need to expand change logs at least. If we were using plain \index{} macro for tagging terms, you could say: \index{some word|textit} to italicize its page number. However, \IX{some word|textit} does not work. So I need to define a number of macros: \IXB{}, \IXBh{}{}, ... -> Bold, for that "ff" case \IXG{}, \IXGh{}{}. ... -> Underline, for definitions in Glossary , and to use one of them where you want to emphasize. The "B" in \IXB came from "Bold", but actual style of emphasis can be changed easily by redefining the \BF{} command. \IXF{} might be a better name. (Macro names embedded in .tex files need to be stable.) Furthermore, I have not figured out the way to make those macros generate proper-format index entries in .idx file. This is mostly because I'm not good at low-level TeX programming. So I added adjustindexformat.pl so that it can be amended before fed into "makeindex". I'd like you to have a look at the changes and resulting looks of Index pages. Any feedback is welcome! Thanks, Akira > > Thanx, Paul >
