From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9297 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Back of book indexes, creating ranges Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:20:05 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020918101915.01fd27b0@server-1> References: <200209171516.48489.john@wexfordpress.com> <200209171516.48489.john@wexfordpress.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399638 2117 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 19:00:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: John Culleton , ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Taco Hoekwater In-Reply-To: <20020918092335.23dd1ea7.taco@elvenkind.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9297 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9297 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------