From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6948 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Indexing Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:33:47 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020221103347.5ee9536b.taco@elvenkind.com> References: <02022212242401.27994@publish> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397449 15212 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:24:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: john@wexfordpress.com In-Reply-To: <02022212242401.27994@publish> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6948 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6948 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