From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: NTG-ConTeXt mailing list <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: "A complex index" in _Digital Typography_
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:24:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991116102400.007b48c0@pop.wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zowfa4rk.fsf@kali.coe.uga.edu>
At 03:17 PM 11/15/99 -0500, Ed L. Cashin wrote:
>Hi. In reading Knuth's _Digital Typography_ at lunch today, I came
Then you're a pretty fast reader.
>line breaking on an index entry such that the "name" part (on the
>left) is ragged right and the "reference" part (on the right) is
>ragged left, like this:
>
> | |
> | foo bar baz and even more........... 1100, 2000, 3300 |
> | |
>
> | |
> | foo bar baz and even more ...... |
> | 1100, 2000, 3300 |
> | |
>
> | |
> | foo bar baz and |
> | even more |
> | .... 1100, 2000, |
> | 3300 |
> | |
>
>I was planning on using perl to doctor the input text so that such
>complex line-breaking decisions were unnecessary, but I'm wondering
>now whether this might be something that people have already tackled.
Since in ConTeXt the text and number are separate entities, I suppose
it is not that impossible to support this. However, I would prefer to build in some hooks first.
I'll have a look at digital typo.
Hans
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-15 20:17 Ed L. Cashin
1999-11-16 9:24 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
1999-11-16 11:18 ` Taco Hoekwater
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