From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17672 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context index and sorting question Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:41:36 -0500 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200412290841.36069.john@wexfordpress.com> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104328247 3409 80.91.229.6 (29 Dec 2004 13:50:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Dec 29 14:50:40 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CjeDo-0001Hj-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:50:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42234127B3; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:50:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25257-06; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:50:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1321127A1; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:50:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8978127A1 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:50:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25080-08 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:50:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mta13.adelphia.net (unknown [68.168.78.44]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B123A1279C for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:50:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from 69-174-190-44.frdrmd.adelphia.net ([69.174.190.44]) by mta13.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20041229135030.PRFB5807.mta13.adelphia.net@69-174-190-44.frdrmd.adelphia.net> for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:50:30 -0500 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17672 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17672 On Wednesday 29 December 2004 04:11, sjoerd siebinga wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently working on a dictionary with multiple indices of older > language stages like, Old English, Old Norse, Greec, Sanskrit, Hittite, > etc. Most of these languages have different characters, accents and > sorting rules than English. In enco-ini.tex I found the \definesortkey > command, but it is not entirely clear to me how I could use this > command for the individual indices instead of for the overall language > (in my case english). Or even if this is possible at all? > > Could someone tell me how I can use the \definesortkey command or for > that matter any other ConTeXt mechanism to define sortrules for > individual indices? > You might want to look into a separate program called Xindy. It more or less replaces Makindex in plain and LaTeX applications, but it could be used in Context most likely. It is specifically designed to address the situations you described, i.e. non-Western European sort rules. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf