[OS X TeX] Entering specially formatted items in the index

[Alain Schremmer]

Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On 8/25/06, Alain Schremmer <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Would it be considered bizarre to want to enter {   } into the index?
>
>
> Poisson brackets \{ , \}
>
> looks like reasonable index item

Yes but how does one do it? See below

>> I tried, of course without hope since MakeIndex is so literal,
>>
>>     \index{\{\;\}}
>>
>> for which I got
>>
>>     " ";"
>>
>> Variations on the theme didn't work any better and Companion 2 ed
>> doesn't seem to address the issue in its long chapter on Indexing.
>
Hopeful regards
--schremmer

------------------------- Info --------------------------
Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
          & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/