Makeindex and Context

Makeindex and Context

[John R. Culleton]

I like the extended feature set of makeindex so I creatred my own 
little routine to use it with Context on a recent project. Here is 
the code:

\newwrite\ind
\immediate\openout\ind=book.idx
\def\sidx#1{\write\ind{\\indexentry{#1}{\the\pageno}}}

It works fine from the indexing point of view. But if the \sidx{} tag 
is embedded in a paragraph then some extra space is left where the 
tag existed in the paragraph. I had to move all such tags to either 
the beginning or the end of the paragraph.

What did I fail to do?
-- 
John Culleton
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Re: Makeindex and Context

[Taco Hoekwater]

John R. Culleton wrote:
> I like the extended feature set of makeindex so I creatred my own 
> little routine to use it with Context on a recent project. Here is 
> the code:
> 
> \newwrite\ind
> \immediate\openout\ind=book.idx
> \def\sidx#1{\write\ind{\\indexentry{#1}{\the\pageno}}}
> 
> It works fine from the indexing point of view. But if the \sidx{} tag 
> is embedded in a paragraph then some extra space is left where the 
> tag existed in the paragraph. I had to move all such tags to either 
> the beginning or the end of the paragraph.
> 
> What did I fail to do?

The one thing missing from your example is the thing that is causing
the spaces: the actual input file. The definitions above look fine,
and are certainly not the cause.

Cheers,
Taco