Can someone please explain like I'm five: What is the correct syntax for making index entries like this?
hierarchy: see `polymorphism`
overloading,
operator: see `operator overloading`
I'm using packages hyperref
and imakeidx
.
What exactly is the "see" syntax, and how am I supposed to invoke it? I'm confused about the difference between
\index{x|see{y}}
\index{x|see {y}}
\index{x|\see{y}}
\index{x|\see {y}}
\indexentry{x|see{y}}
I'm particularly confused because some answers (like this one) mention "the \see
macro", which matches my intuition that special words in TeX should be spelled with backslashes... but then I see people writing actual index entries without the backslash, and somehow it still works!
Corollary: What is the format of {y}
in the above examples? Can I (and should I) be using things like {e@$e$}
or {constant!Euler's}
in a "see"?
Corollary: Does makeindex
recognize any more special verbs besides "see"?