Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> The attached series of patches address this problem. The first basic patch
> (idx.diff) assures that the active characters ("|", "!", and "@") are
> output in plaintext even if they are in an ERT. Our sorting algorithm
> relies on this.
>
> The other two patches provide two alternative ways that deal with Steve's
> original problem:
>
> * idx+a.diff assures that lyx2lyx wraps "|" characters in ERT. This is the
> more coherent approach IMHO, since "|" is not natively supported, but
> plain LaTeX. Additionally, some documentation would be needed.
>
> * idx+b.diff implements what Steve suggested: "|" are always output
> verbatim inside index insets. This is more intuitive to users probably,
> but it does the "LyX"/"LaTeX"-kind of magic we'd actually like to avoid.
>
> Opinions?
Since there were none, I committed the approach preferred by myself (idx.diff
and idx+a.diff).
Jürgen
