Re: (mkii) language-specific options for \placeregister[index] ?

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:01:14 +0100
Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de> wrote:

> Am 19.12.2007 um 14:45 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
> 
> > 2007/12/19, Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> the following (with mkii) is probably not the most pressuring topic
> >> to most of you  ... apologies!
> >>
> >> Although I have set     \mainlanguage[de]       the register seems  
> >> to be
> >> unaffected. All my cultural heritage (i.e. the Umaut) is ignored!!!
> >>
> >> o(
> >>
> >> The problem is the sorting – keywords containing umlauts seem to be
> >> sorted after "e":
> >>
> >> Bestimmung
> >> Bühler
> >> Bildung
> >>
> >> Are there language-specific arguments/options for        
> >> \placeregister[index]?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Steffen
> >
> > Hi Steffen,
> >
> > Can you post a example where this did happen for you.

Hi Hans and all others,

I found the reason for the wrong index sorting in Steffens files.

The correct sorted file contains something like this.

\enableregime[utf]
\starttext
text\index{Bestimmung} text\index{Bühler} text\index{Bildung} text
\placeindex
\stoptext

The text is enclosed by the normal start/stoptext pair and the document
setup is written before the start of the document while the wrong file
contains this:

\starttext
\enableregime[utf]
text\index{Bestimmung} text\index{Bühler} text\index{Bildung} text
\placeindex
\stoptext

The files did not really contain start/stop but use ConTeXts document
structure and \everystarttext is executed by \startpoduct, the first
command in the product file.

The problem is now, ConTeXt write information for the index sorting
into the tui file and a few additional entries for every spcifiec file
encoding, in this utf-8.

This works quite well in the first example because \enableregime is
writte before \starttext while in the second example the sorting
information are written before ConTeXt knows the file encoding.

A workaround for the moment is to write \enableregime before
\startproduct in the main file but I hope this coule be fiyed in the
next release.

I still wonder why nobody noticed this untill now.

Wolfgang

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