From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
To: "'mailing list for ConTeXt users'" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Preparing a weird index.
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 15:42:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140405154212.186ddde9@localb.wexfordpress.net> (raw)
I have a customer that uses a publisher that has
truly weird requirements. The weirdness is
that the locaters are not page numbers but
paragraph numbers. And some paragraph numbers
start with the prefix 'BO' and others with the
chapter number. so a correct sequence would be
BO.15 3.2
A finished sequence would be
goddess @@ BO.15 3.2 3.5
The sort order has to be letter by letter,
as defined in the Chicago Manual of Style.
Can Context sort and summarize these locaters?
I can even change the BO sequence to 0 (zero) and
then change it back later on. The key is can
Context sort by paragraph number rather than
page number for an index.
I have looked into Xindy for this job but the
learning curve is pretty steep and the
documentation pretty opaque. makeindex won't
handle decimals for locators. I don't mind doing
a little reformatting along the way (I already
have for this project) but I don't want to
rewrite makeindex or xindy just for this
job.
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John Culleton
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next reply other threads:[~2014-04-05 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-05 19:42 john Culleton [this message]
2014-04-05 21:09 ` Hans Hagen
2014-06-26 14:17 ` Gour
2014-06-26 16:13 ` Hans Hagen
2014-06-27 5:42 ` Gour
2014-06-27 7:32 ` Hans Hagen
2014-06-27 8:05 ` Gour
2014-06-27 8:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-06-27 10:15 ` Gour
2014-06-27 8:11 ` Hans Hagen
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