Re: Index questions

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Monday 17 February 2003 18:35, Miller Maley wrote:
> I have some questions about the index (register) facility in ConTeXt.
>
> 1) I like that ConTeXt automatically breaks the index into portions
> by first letter, but how do I change the style of the subhead that
> says 'a', 'b', or whatever?  Among other things, I would like these
> little subheads to be uppercase.
>
> 2) Sometimes a topic is referenced at two nearby places in the text.
> If these places fall on separate pages, I would like the index to
> mention both of them.  If they fall on the same page, however, the
> index entry is duplicated.  I expected texutil to remove duplicate
> index entries when sorting.  Is it supposed to?  (This is not a major
> problem; I can work around it.)
>
> 3) Likewise (this is a suggestion rather than a question) it would be
> nice if ConTeXt automatically transformed a sequence of 3 or more
> consecutive index entries (such as 10, 11, 12) into a page range
> (10-12).  I realize there is a facility (\startindex...\stopindex) to
> get these page ranges manually, so again this is not a major issue.
>
> 4) If I have the command \seeindex{foo}{bar} and also \index{foo} on
> page 17, it would be nice if the index could say
>
> foo 17
>     see also bar
>
> rather than just "see bar".  Is there a way to get this behavior?
>
> -- Miller Maley
All these features are available in either Makeindex or Xindy.
Context hasn't got that far yet. I include the index.tex file from the
Texsis distribution and follow that package's conventions. 

With Makeindex there is a parameter file that sets up the output
formatting. 

See my previous post on this subject. 
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