Re: Back of book indexes, creating ranges

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:23 AM 9/18/2002 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>Please please please don't go back to makeindex. If you want to
>do something like this, use xindy. Please.
>
>I'm not sure what the status of this part of context is at the
>moment, but it is very straightforward to code the collapser in
>TeX macros (I've done this at least half a dozen times already).
>In fact, the code is in a submodule of my m-bib module
>(m-list.tex, macro \compresscommalist)
>
>
>On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:16:48 -0400, John wrote:
>
> > Most indexing programs, including Makeindex, Xindy, Cindex etc. will
> > automatically collapse successive page numbers into a page range.
> > There may also be a mechanism for a manually specified range. Context
> > has
> > the manual capability but I do not see any capablity for the automatic
> > collapsing of three or more successive page references into a range.
> > Before I go to the work of adapting Context to Makeindex via code
> > similar to that found in eplain, I would like to ask: is there an
> > automated range creation mechanism for Context, present or planned?
> >
> > John Culleton

actually, this feature is built into texutil [similar to index range 
feature] but not working at the moment (puzzled and looking into it)

Hans

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