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On 4 Sep 2002, Miles Bader wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> > > There's no reason why indexing command couldn't be embedded in
> > > doc-strings/comments.
> > 
> > Right.  However, my point was that coming up with the index entries is 
> > not a job for a program, it requires human intervention.
> 
> Sure, but since the `automatic' step I was talking was transforming
> doc-strings/comments -> info nodes, embedding such commands would avoid
> the problem of automatic index generation.

Yes, but that means we need to go over all the doc strings and add the 
indexing commands.  A lot of work.