On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 07:04:12PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2023/09/23 17:23, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 10:55:44PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> [...]
> >>
> >> -The low overheads of the address and data dependencies discussed in
> >> +The low overheads of the \IXalth{address}{address}{dependency}
> >
> > This looks strange given the different parameters to the \IXalth above
> > and the \IXalth below, but it gets the right thing to the right place
> > in the index, so I queued and pushed all four.
> >
> [...]
> >> +and \IXalth{data dependencies}{data}{dependency} discussed in
>
> Let me explain what's happening here.
>
> Original sentence looked like this:
>
> The low overheads of the address and data dependencies discussed in
>
> Here, if "address dependencies" were there, I could have said:
>
> \IXalth{address dependencies}{address}{dependency}
>
> Instead, I put an index marker of "Dependency, address" on the lonely
> "address", therefore it became:
>
> \IXalth{address}{address}{dependency}
>
> \IXalth{}{}{} prints any string in #1 with an index marker of
> "#3, #2" put on it.
>
> Macros of \IX*alt* are powerful and can do whatever you'd like.
Got it, thank you for the explanation! And indeed they are powerful!
> > Thank you!!! And yes, I am now generating a set of glossary entries. ;-)
>
> Thank you. I like those cautionary remarks.
Glad you like them!
Thanx, Paul
