From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9319 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 23:19:31 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020918231747.01fd13e0@remote-1> References: <20020918092335.23dd1ea7.taco@elvenkind.com> <200209171516.48489.john@wexfordpress.com> <20020918092335.23dd1ea7.taco@elvenkind.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 1035399657 2256 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 19:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Taco Hoekwater , ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: John Culleton In-Reply-To: <200209181540.43733.john@wexfordpress.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9319 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9319 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------