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As a postscript to my previous post


\newcommand{\SeeOnly}[2]{\index{#1@\protect\adjtext{#1}|seeonly{#2}}}

where \seeonly and \adjtext are as previously, does all that is aked of it.

The other way to get rid of the offending text-following comma is to use an index style (.ist) file containing ...

Murraye wrote

No, your code produces an unwanted comma in the index entry for "additive identity", between "additive identity" and the parenthesized reference "(see zero elements)".


Murraye you are quite correct. The original post did not mention an unwanted comma (,) after the index entry ...

I have just seen your query today while investigating MakeIndex myself.
Is not your error to use \seeonly rather than |seeonly inside the \index parameter?
The following works well for me.

\documentclass{article}

\newcommand{\seeonly}[2]{(\emph{see} #1)}
\usepackage{makeidx}\makeindex ...

I am using LaTeX in WinEdt v. 5.5 configured for MixTex 2.9 and Adobe Reader v. 8.3 running under Windows XP. This setup has been stable for a good number of years.

I have a source including EPS figures. DVI and PS outputs are fine. Using the dvi2pdf incorporated feature of WinEdt (which uses ...

In the first paragraph of my reply to frabjous everything after the first sentence is based upon a misinterpretation of his post and should therefore be ignored. I apologise to him and others for this careless error. On the other hand frabjois' post did not answer my question fully and in consquence ...

Thank you Frabjous for your response.

You write "To make a new command local …". The point is I don’t want to make the command \firstmacro local but use of the command name \temp to be local to command \firstmacro. In your code, \firstmacro does not run on calling \secondmacro. I want it to run but ...

Nicola thank you for taking an interest in my question. I note and understand what you write. It is, however, not altogether relevant to my question. At least I think not.

Here is a MWE of the sort of thing I want to be able to avoid happening.

\documentclass{minimal}%
%
\begin{document ...

Is the declaration of a command necessarily global to a document or can it be made local to a command (macro) which uses (calls?) it?

Here is a typical scenario schematically

\newcommand{\firstmacro}[…]%
{%
…
\newcommand{\temp}{…}%
…
\renewcommand{\temp}{…}%
…
}%
\newcommand{\secondmacro ...