Re: Suggestion on reorganizing functions

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 05:34:56PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:20:33PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> A function index would be quite unreliable ("It's not in the
> >> function index, so it's not supported."). Feel free to add general
> >> index entries for all functions, though.
>
> > Where?
>
> In func.sgml. For example, this section seems adequately well indexed:

I think Jeff's original point was that he wanted some kind of index
for all functions, not just ones you already know how to classify.

Thanks for the pointer :)

> <sect1 id="functions-sequence">
> <title>Sequence Manipulation Functions</title>
>
> <indexterm>
> <primary>sequence</primary>
> </indexterm>
[snip]
> One thought though is that it's not clear when looking at the index that
> these entries are function names. Would it be useful to decorate them
> somehow, eg by adding "()" to the names or setting them in a fixed-width
> font?

Sure :)

Cheers,
D
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