From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: Robert Zydenbos <context@zydenbos.net>
Cc: NTG-Context ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: formatting index entries: alphabetical order in Unicode
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:17:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37c791ca-499e-776a-51bc-63bafeb499fc@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F51ECE-2F99-46B8-B050-DAECC31C9AB9@zydenbos.net>
Robert Zydenbos schrieb am 22.08.2019 um 17:52:
> You're right. I just compared my earlier attempts with the results of the sample solutions you and Pablo had sent me and assumed that also everybody else knew what I was talking about.
Your problem was easy to understand but without more information it's
just guess work.
> On 22. Aug 2019, at 16:53, Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Robert Zydenbos schrieb am 22.08.2019 um 01:42:
>>> I seem to have a problem with Unicode in the indexing function for my book: a word like āyitu (beginning with an 'a' with a macron over it) is considered a word that starts with a 'y'; the word īga (beginning with an i with a macron) is placed as if it is 'ga'.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to tell the indexing function how to deal with such special characters?
>> How should we know why you have problems with your index entries when you're unable to provide a working minimal example, all you have shown so far are snippets.
> Attached I am sending a longer example, compiled from a few chapters. There you can see that the word 'āddariṃda' is listed as if it starts with a 'd'. This happens with every word that begins with a vowel with a macron.
>
> As I mentioned in my last posting, I already have a primitive workaround solution – but this could become an issue for some later user for whom the index is more important.
A PDF with the wrong sorting order doesn't help when you can't show a
working minimal example to reproduce the problem. When you need more
control about the sorting order of the index you should switch to MkIV
which has more options.
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-21 8:59 formatting index entries Robert Zydenbos
2019-08-21 15:10 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2019-08-21 23:35 ` Robert Zydenbos
2019-08-21 23:42 ` formatting index entries: alphabetical order in Unicode Robert Zydenbos
2019-08-21 23:58 ` Richard Mahoney | Indica et Buddhica
2019-08-22 9:20 ` Robert Zydenbos
2019-08-22 14:53 ` Wolfgang Schuster
[not found] ` <43F51ECE-2F99-46B8-B050-DAECC31C9AB9@zydenbos.net>
2019-08-22 16:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2019-09-13 10:20 ` Robert Zydenbos
2019-09-13 10:31 ` luigi scarso
2019-09-16 17:22 ` Robert Zydenbos
2019-09-13 10:35 ` Hans Hagen
2019-08-21 15:33 ` formatting index entries Wolfgang Schuster
2019-08-21 23:30 ` Robert Zydenbos
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