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From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: \index{…} causes space
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:18:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012251118.35540.alan.braslau@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E2B0D092-2B77-423E-A7BC-6EF9FC9B3D00@uni-koblenz.de>

On Friday 24 December 2010 12:57:26 Andreas Harder wrote:
> Am 24.12.2010 um 12:53 schrieb Alan BRASLAU:
> > On Friday 24 December 2010 11:54:17 Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> >>> On 12/24/2010 11:48 AM, Andreas Harder wrote:
> >>> \index{test}test
> >> 
> >> \ignorespaces could be possibly be added to \index in your case,
> >> but that does not solve this conceptual problem: what is actually
> >> being indexed in that second line? Not the word on the left
> >> (as that could be on a different page), neither the word on the
> >> right (as that could also be on a different page).
> > 
> > I have understood that the correct use of \index{}
> > 
> > is immediately following the word to be indexed, as in:
> > 	test\index{test}
> 
> The wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Registers#Example) suggests it the
> other way round …?
> 

I don't know about the wiki. Maybe it is correct, maybe not.
I suppose that I should be able to figure this out looking at the source code.

As Taco points out (see below):
	test \index{test}
is no good, as the page can possibly be broken before the index entry;
	\index{test}test
is no good either, as "test" may appear on the page following the index entry.

I had always understood the correct usage to be: 
	test\index{test}

On Friday 24 December 2010 11:54:17 Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> On 12/24/2010 11:48 AM, Andreas Harder wrote:
> > \startTEXpage[offset=1ex]
> > test test\vl \crlf
> > test \index{test}test\vl \crlf  % OK
> > test \index{test} test\vl   % not OK
> > \stopTEXpage
> 
> \ignorespaces could be possibly be added to \index in your case,
> but that does not solve this conceptual problem: what is actually
> being indexed in that second line? Not the word on the left
> (as that could be on a different page), neither the word on the
> right (as that could also be on a different page).
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-25 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-24 10:48 Andreas Harder
2010-12-24 10:54 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-12-24 11:53   ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-12-24 11:57     ` Andreas Harder
2010-12-25 10:18       ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]

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