Use of indexing tools

[Andrew Parsloe]

I hadn't used the indexing tools for many (10?) years and had memories 
of a tedious process but having now compiled another index, the process 
is vastly improved -- with only one quibble: not enough built-in shortcuts.

1. The index-insert lfunction needs a shortcut.

2. Once in an index inset, pressing Return to create a subentry is 
exactly right, but highlights the desirability of having shortcuts for 
both see and see also references. (I found I inserted most of these 'in 
a batch' after looking at the first draft of the index.)

I assigned my own shortcuts built around ctrl+; for index-insert, 
ctrl+shift+; to insert see refs and ctrl+alt+; to insert see also refs 
(the mnemonic is Shift for See, and ALt for ALso). In fact the shortcuts 
were more complicated to take account of different situations (inset 
filled with a word or not, word selected or not, word accepatable or 
not), in the course of which I found myself wanting to put a 
command-sequence inside command-alternatives. Is this possible? (Riki? 
-- I see "rgh" introduced command-alternatives.)

Andrew