From: Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>
Subject: Re: [off-list, urgent] Index design
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:24:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F581C38-B74B-4AF1-8C2B-811344BB2298@st.estfiles.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C71C7E.4080108@wxs.nl>
OK, but there seems to be no out-of-the box solution like
"alternative=b".
Is it at least that doable that someone could do it? I have no idea...
Steffen
Am 26.07.2006 um 09:40 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> sorry for contacting you off-list. But the publishing-house I am
>> working for at the moment needs to know the answer to my "Index
>> design" question today.
>>
>> They have a series of books with a given index (register of keywords)
>> designed as described below.
>> This design was set in the past with 3B2, and now is the question: is
>> it also possible to set it (in this strange way) with ConTeXt?
>>
>>
>> Please see my description below (hope gets it's clear):
>>
>> Is it possible, in an index, not to have single letters as separators
>> (here "a", "w") in a dedicated line, but instead only the first
>> letter of
>> the first entry with "a" or "w" set bold?
>>
>> See this minimal example:
>>
>> \setupoutput[pdftex]
>>
>> \starttext
>> \chapter{First Chapter}
>> Some text...\index{word}
>>
>> \section {First Section}
>> Some text...\index{word}
>> Some text...\index{another entry}
>> Some text...\index{ansi}
>> Some text...\index{another entry}
>>
>> \page[yes]
>> \completeindex
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>>
>> Here I would like to have only the first letter of the index entries
>> "another" and "word" in the index to be set bold.
> since tex is programmable, things like this are doable; of course
> the question is "what tweaks are needed"; anyhow, it should not be
> a show-stopper
>
> Hans
>
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2006-07-26 7:40 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-26 8:24 ` Steffen Wolfrum [this message]
2006-07-26 7:59 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-26 9:15 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2006-07-26 14:46 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-07-26 15:29 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-07-26 20:52 ` Hans Hagen
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