Re: Back of book indexes, creating ranges

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hi John,

Please please please don't go back to makeindex. If you want to
do something like this, use xindy. Please.

I'm not sure what the status of this part of context is at the
moment, but it is very straightforward to code the collapser in
TeX macros (I've done this at least half a dozen times already).
In fact, the code is in a submodule of my m-bib module
(m-list.tex, macro \compresscommalist)

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:16:48 -0400, John wrote:

> Most indexing programs, including Makeindex, Xindy, Cindex etc. will
> automatically collapse successive page numbers into a page range. 
> There may also be a mechanism for a manually specified range. Context 
> has
> the manual capability but I do not see any capablity for the automatic
> collapsing of three or more successive page references into a range.
> Before I go to the work of adapting Context to Makeindex via code
> similar to that found in eplain, I would like to ask: is there an
> automated range creation mechanism for Context, present or planned?
> 
> John Culleton
> 

-- 
groeten,

Taco