From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42641 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \index versus makeindex. Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:16:04 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0807202316r2de3d5c4ia8c1f85831c54b70@mail.gmail.com> References: <200807181338.13462.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216621087 24160 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 06:18:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:18:07 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jul 21 08:18:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KKojY-0005l2-AH for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:18:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922551FCE9; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:17:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22683-02-2; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:17:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78561FC82; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:17:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7851FD19 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:16:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20162-04 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:16:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.244]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7721FC74 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:16:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c8so336130ana.14 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.100.109.13 with SMTP id h13mr1594277anc.55.1216620964288; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.100.109.20 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:16:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200807181338.13462.john@wexfordpress.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:42641 Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:38 PM, John Culleton wrote: > Usually I use makeindex for indexing but for my current job I thought > the Context \index command would be convenient. However I discovered > that the \index command does not provide for page ranges. If I index > the same item on pages 46, 47, 48, and 49 makeindex will collapse > this into a range of 46-49. Context won't. > > I looked at the book.tuo file but it does not look like something I > can hand-modify. > > Is there a work-around I have missed or must I revert to makeindex to > get a proper index? > > I am ccing Hans because my posts don't seem to make their way to the > list for some reason. Perhaps Comcast has torpedoed me once again. \placeindex[compress=yes] Regards, Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________