Re: Back of book indexes, creating ranges

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 03:40 PM 9/18/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
>On Wednesday 18 September 2002 03:23 am, 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.
>
>Well I understand that makeindex is not perfect and doesn't handle
>non-English languages well, but it is configurable and
>well-documented.
>I have done some nice indexes with it.
>
>For example I prefer that the letter headings be capitalized, centered
>and set off with em dashes. That is simple in makeindex but would take
>a long discussion here on the group for Context, possibly pulling you
>and Hans away from more critical work.

You're lucky: this took me 10 miliseconds -)

\def\Well#1{---#1---} \setupregister[index][command=\Well,style=\kap]

>Even with Xindy I will need to either copy or create some macros to
>spin off the input file and import the output file.
>
>Are there objections to makeindex (beyond the limitations in handling
>other
>European languages) that motivate you to discard it?

dunno, never used it

Hans
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