[texhax] expansion in makeindex

[Uwe Lück]

What about \protect\mathbb and \protect\Realsto within \index{...}?
HTH -- Uwe.

At 17:59 26.05.06, Zbigniew Nitecki wrote:
>I'm confused about the following kinds of phenomena with MakeIndex:
>
>1.When I have in my text file an entry
>\index{distance! in \mathbb{R}},
>it prints in the idx file as
>\indexentry{distance!in @\@mathbb {R}}{1}
>and then in the printed index prints as
>mathbb{R}
>
>2.What am I supposed to do to get it to print as a blackboard-bold 
>R?  Furthermore, what about
>user-defined macros (for example, I have one
>\Realsto[1]
>which expands as
>\ensuremath{\mathbb{R}^{#1}}
>---how can I use it in an index-generating command
>
>3.(for example, I have a macro
>\deffontcustom[2]
>which expands as
>\textbf{#1}\index{#2}
>---do I do something different when entering an entry involving a macro 
>like the one above?
>
>Zbigniew Nitecki
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