Issue 1005936: Index entries with "_" are wrong in pdf file (original) (raw)

"make pdf". Open lib.pdf in acrobat reader, or another pdf viewer with the "bookmarks" feature. Open the "Python Language Services" item. Section 18.8 (in CVS) will read "pyprotect unhbox voidb@x kern 0.6emvbox {hrule width.55em}compile --- Compile Python source files"

It should read simply "py_compile --- Compile Python source files"---If you visit that section, that's the title shown.

I only know enough LaTeX to get myself hurt, but it looks like "_" was converted into a special sequence, and the step that produces the index used the expanded version.

It's a fix that would feel icky, but if this sequence "protect ....55em}" was the same everywhere, simply replacing that string with "_" when generating the index would probably get the right results.

I first noticed this problem in dist.pdf where many of the module names contained underscores.