Re: Elided page numbers in registers

[Vit Zyka <vit.zyka@seznam.cz>]

Duncan Hothersall wrote:
> Another question on registers (just getting into indexing!).
> 
> I have a book which numbers its pages by chapter, and so page numbers
> are 1/1, 1/2 ... for the pages of chapter 1, and then 2/1, 2/2 ... for
> the pages of chapter 2.
> 
> I have page ranges in my index, such as 1/1-1/3, or 2/24-2/26.
> 
> I would like these ranges to be elided - in other words, the first one
> would read 1/1-3 (remove repeated chapter number), and the second would
> read 2/24-6 (remove repeated chapter number and also the repeated 2 in
> page number).
> 
> Question: is there an already existing system to do this? I guess no :-)

And I add one more related question:

   Is it possible to mix \start...\stopregister with just \register?
   According to this minimal example not. If there is not some secret for
   me, can it be extended?

Please, focus on Duncan:
----------------------------------------------
\defineregister[Name][Names]
\setupregister[Name][pagestyle=\it]
\setupregister[Name][bf][pagestyle=\bf]

\starttext
   Names:
   \Name[bf::]{Hans}
   \Name{Taco}
   \startregister[Name][bf::]{Duncan}

   \page[yes]
   \Name{Hans}
   \stopregister[Name][bf::]{Duncan}

   \page[yes]
   \Name{Duncan}
   \placeregister[Name]
\stoptext
----------------------------------------------

Thanks
vit

> Followup: I would be willing to help to code this if it doesn't exist (I
> have some experience with such systems) if someone can point me at the
> right bit of code to look at (things seem to be changing around
> texutils, newtexexec etc. so I don't want to start at the wrong place).
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Duncan
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