Re: register: spurious space & one more entry level ask

[Vit Zyka <vit.zyka@gmail.com>]

Jupiiiii!

Both patches (space & 4-level entry) work well as I can test them till 
now. I will do some testing on a real and big document in a near future.

Do you intend to incorporate both patches to the distribution?

Thank you Hans for extremely quick solutions
Vit

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Vit Zyka wrote:
>> Dear ConTeXters,
>>
>> there are 3 topics dealing with register (index):
>>
>> 1. [Spurious space] There are entries like
>>       \registerpage{index}{,}{5}{2--1-1-0-1-0-0-0--1}{2}
>>     in a *.tuo file. Since the definition (core-reg.tex)
>>       \def\dosetpageregisterpage#1#2#3#4#5#6%
>>         {\doifreglevelelse[#5]%
>>           {\dodosetpageregisterpage{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6}}%
>>           {}}
>>     there will be a spurious space between page number like
>>       Entry 23 , 67
>>     instead of
>>       Entry 23, 67
>>
>>     Solution:
>>       \def\dosetpageregisterpage#1#2#3#4#5#6%
>>         {\doifreglevelelse[#5]%
>>           {\dodosetpageregisterpage{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6}}%
>>           {}\ignorespaces}
> 
> interesting that no one noticed this before ... in core-uti.tex pushing 
> the line ending was messed up when changing to catcode tables (well, 
> pseudo ones in mkii)
> 
> \long\def\doutilities#1#2#3#4#5% % introduceren in utility file
>   {\resetutilities
>    % more than one utility thing can be handled in one pass,
>    % for instance lists, so we process ##1 as list
>    \def\douticommand##1{\csname\s!set##1\endcsname}%
>    \processcommacommand[#1]\douticommand
>    \begingroup
>    \def\currentutilityfilename{#2}%
>    \notesenabledfalse
>    \doinpututilitiestrue
>    \global\utilitydonefalse
>    \pushcatcodetable
>    \setcatcodetable\ctxcatcodes
>    \pushendofline % <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>    \ifunprotectutilities % nog nodig ?
>      \unprotect
>    \fi
> 
> 
>> 2. [feature request] Current register implementation enable upto three 
>> entry level (\index{level 1+level 2+level 3}). My custommer require 4 
>> levels. Please could the entry number be extended?
> 
> not trivial, since we then need to adapt texutil too + a bunch of 
> macros; adapting mkiv may be easier
> 
>> 3. [not important, just for info] Formating of the register entries is 
>> not much user friendly. See \hangindent1em in a following definition:
>>
>>    \def\dosetpageregisterentrya#1#2%
>>      {\flushseenregisterpage
>>       \edef\currententrylevel{1}%
>>       \global\let\c!entryb\relax
>>       \global\let\c!entryc\relax
>>       \gdef\c!entrya
>>         {\iffirstregisterentry\else\endgraf\fi % new
>>          \global\firstregisterpagetrue
>>          \hangindent1em\noindent\c!entryreference
>>          \dohandlepageregisterentry{#1}{#2}%
>>          \global\firstregisterentryfalse
>>          \global\firstsubentrytrue
>>          \global\firstsubsubentrytrue}}
>>
>> So, when one want the change formating he has to redefine this 
>> definition. It is against a ConTeXt spirit.
> 
> some day there will be a better interface (probably only in mkiv)
> 
> Hans
> 
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