On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:39:08PM -0400, rgheck wrote:
> José Matos wrote:
> > Hi,
> > the file attached shows a problem when converting an index from 1.5 to
> > 1.6.
> >
> > The problem is that the original index is: "\~\/ Operator" the problem
> > is
> > that the conversion to latex transforms the \~ as an accent into unicode
> > character 0303 the tilde accent. Clearly this wrong in this context but I
> > do
> > not have a better suggestion other than to pass the whole string as ERT if
> > the
> > name has a slash (\).
> >
> > Any comments here?
> >
> >
> Hmm. I've run into problems like this before. But this solution would
> basically undo everything we've tried to do, involving conversions
> between LaTeX and LyX-text in the indexes. If there's no better
> solution, then of course we have to go your way. How does LaTeX know
> what to do here? Is \~ the accent only if it is followed by a letter? If
> so, we can check for that in latex2lyx. The "hardone" check was in
> response to this kind of problem with other commands.
Note that \~ is always an accent. In order to get a ~ character, you
should use \~{}, and indeed \textasciitilde is defined exactly so.
Here José is using the italic correction \/ in place of {}, so the
accent would be placed on this tiny space.
I added an index list to the file from José (see attached) and the
output is practically the same in 1.5 and 1.6. In 1.6 you get a
complaint from the index sorting algorithm, which probably cannot
face this case, but otherwise it works.
So, it seems that there is a problem with the sorting algorithm and
also a visualization problem in LyX, but otherwise it works.
However, there's surely a problem in how the index is dealt with, as
if you use \~{} in place of \~\/ the conversion fails badly.
--
Enrico
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