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

[Alain Schremmer]

Alain Schremmer wrote:

> 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

Now that the real important dust seems to have settled a bit, could 
anyone help on how to index curly brackets?

By the way, and I am not being sarcastic, the dust was fascinating from 
any number of viewpoints and I even did learn a few things.

Regards
--schremmer


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