From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1264 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: "A complex index" in _Digital Typography_ Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:24:00 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991116102400.007b48c0@pop.wxs.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035392093 31201 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:54:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:54:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: NTG-ConTeXt mailing list Original-To: ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin) In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1264 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1264 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------