ntg-context - mailing list for ConTeXt users
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Hans Hagen: "an index entry needs an anchor" (Mail Archive 3/19/2014)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:54:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5465DF5A.6000806@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141114092402.GA22219@nan>

On 11/14/2014 10:24 AM, Rudolf Bahr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> LaTeX "index" command doesn't need an anchor in order to print the page number.
>
> Sometimes you can't give the ConTeXt-Command "index" any anchor. Think of an
> external figure on a page and nothing else, without any text. When I say, for instance:
>
> \index{Brigitte Bardot}\strut
>
> I get a correct index, but an unsolicited extra empty page, too. What could be a solution?
> My ConTeXt version is: "ConTeXt  ver: 2014.11.12 21:46 MKIV beta  fmt: 2014.11.14"

i'm pretty sure that any index mechanism that is supposed to provide the 
right page does a delayed write, so some kind of anchoring is there

(you could try \index{...}\null or maybe \setregisterentry)

Hans


-----------------------------------------------------------------
                                           Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE
               Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
     tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
                                              | www.pragma-pod.nl
-----------------------------------------------------------------
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive  : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-14 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-14  9:24 Rudolf Bahr
2014-11-14 10:54 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2014-11-15  8:59   ` Rudolf Bahr

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=5465DF5A.6000806@wxs.nl \
    --to=pragma@wxs.nl \
    --cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).