Re: Indexing

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hi John,

I know for a fact that Hans has been looking into xindy. IIRC,
makeindex just isn't powerful enough to be usable with Context,
and xindy was 'nearly there but not quite usable yet' (that was 
the situation about 2 years ago).

Context's registers pre-date xindy as well as the dos/win
port of makeindex by a couple of years, which is no doubt
the reason why Hans invented his own system.

The thing that is definately needed in a replacement program is 
the possibility to pass along 'piggyback' data together with the
actual index entry. Joachim was very understanding about that
request, but I don't know whether they did or did not implement
it in xindy (yet?).

Greetings, Taco

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:24:24 -0500 "John Culleton" wrote:
> The indexing part of Context (called ``register'') seems to
> be limited in some respects when compared to makeindex and
> xindy. Has anyone tried to incorporate these other indexing 
> products in a Context document? 

-- 
groeten,

Taco