Re: Indexing

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:22:58 -0500
"John Culleton" <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> I recognize that makeindex lacks the hyperref features that may be 
> useful
> for online documents, as well as the extensions that Xindy hopes to
> bring to the indexing process. But it suits my needs. So can I 
> include eplain.tex and use its indexing commands without messing 
> something
> else up? AFAIK its macros (\idx, \sidx etc.) do not have name 
> conflicts with the corresponding ConText commands.

At least the indexing part should be safe. I'm not sure about the
rest eplain. It *used to* work but that was a very long time ago.
You 'll just have to try and see. 

I used to have a small set of indexing macros for plain, these
probably would also work. Most plain macro packages work out of the 
box, or with only trivial changes.

The thing is: I like the ConTeXt registers a lot. I don't want
to go back to makeindex anymore (even though getting the sort order
right in texutil can be a pain). 

-- 
groeten,

Taco