Re: [docbook-apps] Interesting anomaly in specialized index handling

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Dick,
Sounds like a bug in the symbols code.  That's handled as a special 
case.  I'll take a look.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 5/4/2016 12:31 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote:
> I have been using the specialized index facility to create two
> indexes, one with type="author" and the other with type="subject".
>
> I have one entry under type="subject" that is a symbol, so there is a
> "Symbols" entry in that index. Even though there isn't any entry that
> would go under Symbol with type="author", I get an empty Symbol
> heading in the author index.
>
> If I remove the symbol term with type="subject", the heading
> disappears from the author index.
>
> I thought this might extend to other headings, but that's not the
> case. For example, there are indexterms starting with the letter "i"
> in the subject index, but none in the author index, and there is no
> heading for "i" in the author index. So the problem appears to occur
> only for symbols.
>
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