[rfa/doc] tex -> texindex -> tex -> texindex -> tex

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Noticed that the texinfo 4.0 doco mentions that, when building 
> documentation, the sequence:
> 
> 	tex
> 	texindex
> 	tex
> 	texindex
> 	tex
> 
> should be used.  The attached does this.

Which begs a question: why don't we use texi2dvi, like God intended?  
I've seen quite a few documents where the tex/texindex duet is run 
more than 2 times, until the indices converge.  Why should we 
second-guess a well-established tool such as texi2dvi?