Re: Back of book indexes, creating ranges

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Wednesday 18 September 2002 03:23 am, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Please please please don't go back to makeindex. If you want to
> do something like this, use xindy. Please.

Well I understand that makeindex is not perfect and doesn't handle
non-English languages well, but it is configurable and 
well-documented.
I have done some nice indexes with it. 

For example I prefer that the letter headings be capitalized, centered
and set off with em dashes. That is simple in makeindex but would take
a long discussion here on the group for Context, possibly pulling you
and Hans away from more critical work. 

Even with Xindy I will need to either copy or create some macros to 
spin off the input file and import the output file. 

Are there objections to makeindex (beyond the limitations in handling 
other
European languages) that motivate you to discard it? 

Best,

John Culleton