Re: Indexing

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:12:25 -0500
"John Culleton" <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> 1 Automatic range feature. If the same item is referenced
> in three or more successive pages a page range
> is created by default (This can be turned off.)

Ouch! I *know* that I had a generic macro solution for this, but
it probably got trashed after a re-install. The same problem
applies to references, so there is code in m-bib that takes
care of the problem. Anyway, a macro-base solution is fairly
simple to implement within context.

> 2. Multiple formats. I use the following script with
> two different parameter files to produce one file to
> feed back into the typesetting job and another
> in plain ascii (for later conversion to rtf):

This is a trivial perl exercise: parse the tuo file for the register
entries and write a new file. 

In fact, implementing all of makeindex' functionality in perl is not 
too hard either.

-- 
groeten,

Taco