Xindy interfaced to Context

Xindy interfaced to Context

[John Culleton]

I have completed my project to demonstrate the use of Xindy in
conjunction with Context. The results are available in the following
(identical) collections of files:
http://wexfordpress.com/tex/culleton.zip
http://wexfordpress.com/tex/culleton.tar.gz

I look forward to a more elegant implementation by a more elegant
programmer.  But mine works for now.  :-) Anyone who needs to index a 
non-English document in Context (or pdfetex or whatever) need only
create an alphabet file and proceed onward. 

-- 


John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters 
Rowse Reviews
Culleton Editorial Services
http://wexfordpress.com

Re: Xindy interfaced to Context

[John Culleton]

On Tuesday 14 January 2003 22:58, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, does Xindy support XML, such that one could,
> say, use DocBook (with ConTeXt)?
>
> Bruce
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Not as such. but the indexing commands could I suppose be interspersed
with the XML code.  My interface uses traditional TeX type macros to
produce a beginning index file, an available translation program to
convert that file into Xindy-speak, and then the Xindy program to
further summarize and sort the index entries. The original creation
macros could be rewritten to resemble XMl I suppose and of course the
output can be reformatted in that fashion also. But no one is working
on that to my knowledge.
-- 

John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters 
Rowse Reviews
Culleton Editorial Services
http://wexfordpress.com

Re: Xindy interfaced to Context

[Bruce D'Arcus]

Just out of curiosity, does Xindy support XML, such that one could, 
say, use DocBook (with ConTeXt)?

Bruce

Re: Xindy interfaced to Context

[Nagy Bence]

> programmer.  But mine works for now.  :-) Anyone who needs to index a 
> non-English document in Context (or pdfetex or whatever) need only
> create an alphabet file and proceed onward.
Then the necessary extensions to complete the hungarian alphabet :-)

(define-letter-group "cs" :after "c" :before "d")

;; Maybe wrong but understandable. There are only some words
;; beginning with 'dzs' (all from english):
;; dzsungel=jungle, dzsem=jam, dzsentri=gentry, dzseki=jacket...
;; I don't found any words beginning with 'dz' (SMART dictionary).
(define-letter-group "dz" :after "d" :before "dzs")
(define-letter-group "dzs" :after "dz" :before "e")

(define-letter-group "gy" :after "g" :before "h")
(define-letter-group "ly" :after "l" :before "m")
(define-letter-group "ny" :after "n" :before "o")
(define-letter-group "sz" :after "s" :before "t")
(define-letter-group "ty" :after "t" :before "u")
(define-letter-group "zs" :after "z")

Greetings

Bence Nagy