From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Command for printing back of book index.
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 22:41:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5383A705.7070806@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140526163119.40b8d9f8@localb.wexfordpress.net>
On 5/26/2014 10:31 PM, john Culleton wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2014 19:15:48 +0200
> Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>> On 5/26/2014 6:07 PM, john Culleton wrote:
>>>
>>> In the current General Manual section 12.7
>>> "Registers" the command for actually printing
>>> the back of book index is omitted. What is
>>> it? Is it the same for both MKII and MKIV?
>>>
>>> Does one run the command texutil separate from
>>> the context command (analogous to running the
>>> makeindex command in other versions of TeX)?
>>>
>>> I can create an index separate from context
>>> using a front end to makeindex that I wrote
>>> years ago but I prefer an embedded index.
>>
>> producing an (sorted) index has always been
>> integrated
>>
>> - in mkii texexec handles it (using texutil for
>> all multi-pass pre- processing); the use never
>> had to run texutil him/herself; in fact, i once
>> made a replacement in Lua so that we could
>> avoid ruby but never finished it read: had time
>> to finish it
>>
>> - in mkiv sorting the index is done internally
>>
>> there has never been a reason for using
>> something makeindex
>>
>> Hans
>>
>> ps. texutil itself went from modula-2 to perl
>> to ruby ... so it's a real ancient part of
>> context
>>
>
> Thanks. Now, what is the command to be placed at
> the back of the file to print the index? Section
> 12.7 just has a blank line after
>
> "A register is generated and placed in your
> document with"
did you consult the wiki?
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Registers
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-26 16:07 john Culleton
2014-05-26 17:15 ` Hans Hagen
2014-05-26 20:31 ` john Culleton
2014-05-26 20:41 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2014-05-26 22:34 ` john Culleton
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