Registers from external documents?

Registers from external documents?

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Hello,

this is a question arising from a post on comp.text.tex

Suppose that I want to write some sort of encyclopedia. Suppose
also that it's getting that big and that I'd want to split it up
in different volumes. Is it possible to have an index common to
all source files?

In other words: is it possible to use in a document register data
from other documents?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re: Registers from external documents?

[Hans Hagen]

At 10:28 AM 12/10/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>this is a question arising from a post on comp.text.tex
>
>Suppose that I want to write some sort of encyclopedia. Suppose
>also that it's getting that big and that I'd want to split it up
>in different volumes. Is it possible to have an index common to
>all source files?
>
>In other words: is it possible to use in a document register data
>from other documents?

not by default, but it should not be that hard to do; a matter of merging 
indexes into one (combining tui's) and extending the index entry with a 
file tag

Hans

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Re[2]: Registers from external documents?

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Monday, December 10, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:

>>In other words: is it possible to use in a document register data
>>from other documents?

Can you look into it? If not, I think I could do something about
it, but then a plug-in interface for TeXUtil would be *extremely*
useful.

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re[2]: Registers from external documents?

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:25 PM 12/10/2001 +0100, you wrote:

>Monday, December 10, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> >>In other words: is it possible to use in a document register data
> >>from other documents?
>
>Can you look into it? If not, I think I could do something about

not this week -) it is on my list to support cross document indexes but for 
that i have extend the index refs a bit (not that complicated since i 
already know what to do);

>it, but then a plug-in interface for TeXUtil would be *extremely*
>useful.

i know and will work on it

btw, texutil does already merge tui files (search for merge in texutil.pl) 
but i never really used it

Hans

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