From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17675 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sjoerd siebinga Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context index and sorting question Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:37:45 +0100 Message-ID: <3410DD8C-59A7-11D9-97BC-000A95C0A254@zonnet.nl> References: <200412290841.36069.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104331079 10709 80.91.229.6 (29 Dec 2004 14:37:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Dec 29 15:37:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CjexV-0004QM-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:37:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BEEE127B3; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:37:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25740-05; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:37:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7468D127AC; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:37:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EDE9127AC for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:37:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25717-04 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:37:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from drostenholm.com (unknown [84.119.245.75]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7F01276C for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:37:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by drostenholm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0205113CE90 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:37:46 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <200412290841.36069.john@wexfordpress.com> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17675 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17675 On 29 Dec 2004, at 14:41, John Culleton wrote: >> >> Could someone tell me how I can use the \definesortkey command or for >> that matter any other ConTeXt mechanism to define sortrules for >> individual indices? >> > You might want to look into a separate program called Xindy. It more > or less > replaces Makindex in plain and LaTeX applications, but it could be > used in > Context most likely. It is specifically designed to address the > situations > you described, i.e. non-Western European sort rules. > Thanks for the quick reply, John. Xindy looks like a great program and provides great solutions. The problem is that I can't seem to get it to work on my Mac OS X machine. A quick look through the xindy mailinglist gave me the impression that no one has been able to get Xindy to run on Mac OS X yet. Could somebody maybe tell me just how the \definesortkey command works? Do I have to define a specific encoding or create "languagespecifics" in order for TEXEXEC or TEXUTIL to use it? I would imagine that ConTeXt must be able to sort a norwegian words in a separate register say "\indexnw{kr{\o}ypa}}" differently from the english index entries in general \index{} register. Sjoerd