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At 04:12 PM 2/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>1 Automatic range feature. If the same item is referenced
>in three or more successive pages a page range
>is created by default (This can be turned off.)

I can look into that once i clean up the register module

for the moment, there is the following (structure related, since having 
three entries is a row is kind of unstructured) method:

\startregister[index]{aa}test\page
test\page
\stopregister[index]{aa}test\page

>2. Multiple formats. I use the following script with
>two different parameter files to produce one file to
>feed back into the typesetting job and another
>in plain ascii (for later conversion to rtf):
>
>tex $1.tex
>makeindex -s alpha.ist  $1 -o $1.jnd
>makeindex -s dummy.ist $1 -o $1.ind
>tex $1.tex
>dvips $1.dvi
>ps2pdf $1.ps
>acroread  $1.pdf
>
>AFAIK Context does not do either of these.

What excactly is this feature suppose to provide? Multiple indexes as well 
as multiple look-and-feel is supported.

Hans
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