From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Command for printing back of book index.
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 16:31:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140526163119.40b8d9f8@localb.wexfordpress.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538376C4.10901@wxs.nl>
On Mon, 26 May 2014 19:15:48 +0200
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 5/26/2014 6:07 PM, john Culleton wrote:
> >
> > In the current General Manual section 12.7
> > "Registers" the command for actually printing
> > the back of book index is omitted. What is
> > it? Is it the same for both MKII and MKIV?
> >
> > Does one run the command texutil separate from
> > the context command (analogous to running the
> > makeindex command in other versions of TeX)?
> >
> > I can create an index separate from context
> > using a front end to makeindex that I wrote
> > years ago but I prefer an embedded index.
>
> producing an (sorted) index has always been
> integrated
>
> - in mkii texexec handles it (using texutil for
> all multi-pass pre- processing); the use never
> had to run texutil him/herself; in fact, i once
> made a replacement in Lua so that we could
> avoid ruby but never finished it read: had time
> to finish it
>
> - in mkiv sorting the index is done internally
>
> there has never been a reason for using
> something makeindex
>
> Hans
>
> ps. texutil itself went from modula-2 to perl
> to ruby ... so it's a real ancient part of
> context
>
Thanks. Now, what is the command to be placed at
the back of the file to print the index? Section
12.7 just has a blank line after
"A register is generated and placed in your
document with"
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-26 16:07 john Culleton
2014-05-26 17:15 ` Hans Hagen
2014-05-26 20:31 ` john Culleton [this message]
2014-05-26 20:41 ` Hans Hagen
2014-05-26 22:34 ` john Culleton
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