[OS X TeX] \langle does not display as such in the Index

[Alexander J. Hahn]

How do you get italicized words/concepts to be in Roman in the index?


On 1/23/16, 9:03 PM, "MacOSX-TeX on behalf of Herbert Schulz"
<macosx-tex-bounces at email.esm.psu.edu on behalf of herbs at wideopenwest.com>
wrote:

>> On Jan 23, 2016, at 7:23 PM, Alain Schremmer
>><schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On , at 2016 Jan 23,7:31 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Jan 23, 2016, at 5:39 PM, Alain Schremmer
>>>><schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I am proofreading a bit and just noticed that:
>>>> 
>>>> \langle displays correctly under showidx but under makeidx displays
>>>>hA   
>>>> and 
>>>> \rangle displays correctly under showidx but under makeidx  displays
>>>> A with a little cup on top followed by B
>>>> 
>>>> Similarly, 
>>>> 
>>>> \left \langle displays correctly with showidx but under makeidx
>>>>displays CircleCross A
>>>> and
>>>> \right \rangle displays correctly under showidx but under makeidx
>>>>displays a dropped A with a little cup on top followed by B
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I am using
>>>> 
>>>> 			\let\oldopenparen\(%
>>>> 			\let\oldcloseparen\)%
>>>> 
>>>>			\newcommand{\INDEX}[1]{\def\({\protect\oldopenparen}\def\){\protect\
>>>>oldcloseparen}\index{#1}}
>>>> 
>>>> which works fine with every other symbols.
>>>> 
>>>> Puzzled regards
>>>> --schremmer
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> What are you trying to do?
>> 
>> Indexing math symbols which works fine except for \rlangle and \langle
>> 
>>> Are you including the \rlangle and \langle in math mode?
>> 
>> Yes
>> 
>> Regards
>> --schremmer
>
>Howdy,
>
>Have you tried
>
>\index{{\(\angle\)}} or \index{$\langle$}? It seems to work fine for the
>makeidx package for me.
>
>%%!TEX TS-program = pdflatexmk
>\documentclass{article}
>\usepackage{makeidx}
>\makeindex
>\begin{document}
>Here's an indexed item; \(\langle\)\index{\(\langle\)}.
>\printindex
>\end{document}
>
>Good Luck,
>
>Herb Schulz
>(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
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