Re: Fundamental change in index mechanism ?

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> because of a second edition I had to typeset a project from august  
> 2006 a second time (with very, very little text changes).
> 
> Then, I experienced that the register had changed (a simple \index 
> [keyword] and \placeregister[index]).
> And with a closer look I saw that in the first edition the index  
> entries also get listed in the index register when appearing also in  
> the TOC content! Now, it was impossible for me to reproduce this: The  
> first listed entries now came from the beginning of the actual text.
> 
> Is this a know bug? (Is there already a fix for it?)

IMO, the current behaviour (as I understand it) is a bugfix for the
known bug of pointlessly indexing a lookup table.

Ask yourself: why would anyone want to be pointed to the table of
contents from within the register?

Taco