From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11096 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Index questions Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:02:28 +0000 Organization: WexfordPress Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <200302211402.28191.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <9093373E-42A6-11D7-A164-0003935A7A70@idaccr.org> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045854323 25062 80.91.224.249 (21 Feb 2003 19:05:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18mIU6-0006Vw-00 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:05:22 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B5FC10AF9; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:05:26 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mta2.adelphia.net (unknown [64.8.50.178]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D3F10AF0 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:03:08 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from publish ([68.65.115.54]) by mta2.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.25 201-253-122-126-125-20021216) with ESMTP id <20030221190302.VXCJ9343.mta2.adelphia.net@publish>; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:03:02 -0500 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl, Miller Maley X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] In-Reply-To: <9093373E-42A6-11D7-A164-0003935A7A70@idaccr.org> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11096 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11096 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.=20 With Makeindex there is a parameter file that sets up the output formatting.=20 See my previous post on this subject.=20 --=20 John Culleton Books are cheaper than mistakes. See http://wexfordpress.com/tex/pub.pdf for reviews of excellent publishing books.