Dotted leader in index entries

Dotted leader in index entries

[Duncan Hothersall]

  [Reposting because I think my last message got mangled.]

Hello all.

I'm using Mk II. When I use the following setup to get dotted leaders 
between an index entry and its page number:

\def\MyIndexTextCmd#1{#1\dotfill}
\setupregister[Index][n=2,textcommand=\MyIndexTextCmd,distance=1em,alternative=A]

it works okay producing output like this:

Index entry.....123

except when the entry text is just long enough to fill up the horizontal 
space, pushing the number over onto the next line. What I get in that 
scenario is this:

Index entry text...
   123

This is no good. What I really need is for all page numbers to be at the 
right hand side, with leading dots. So I'd like a solution to produce 
either this:

Index entry text...
   ....................123

or preferably this:

Index entry
   text..............123

At the moment I'm putting forced line breaks before the last word to 
achieve what I need, but I would really like to automate this!

Thanks for any help, hope the issue is clear.

Duncan

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Re: Dotted leader in index entries

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 06.11.2010 um 12:12 schrieb Duncan Hothersall:

> [Reposting because I think my last message got mangled.]

Your message came through but there was no example from you!

Wolfgang

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Dotted leader in index entries

[Duncan Hothersall]

[Now with a proper example!]

Hello all.

I'm using Mk II. I need to set up dotted leaders between an index entry 
and its page number as show in this runnable sample:

\def\Icmd#1{#1\dotfill}
\setupregister[index][n=2,textcommand=\Icmd,distance=1em,alternative=A]
\starttext
\index{Example+This index entry doesn't quite work}\index{This is 
okay}\index{Example+This is okay}\index{This index entry is not correct 
at all}\index{Example+This is another example in which the leaders don't 
work cos of wrapping}A little text.\par
\placeindex
\stoptext

When the entry text is just long enough to fill up the horizontal space 
it is pushing the number over onto the next line. What I really need is 
for all page numbers to be at the right hand side, with leading dots. So 
I'd like a solution to produce either this:

Long index entry text
   ....................123

or this:

Long index entry
   text..............123

At the moment I'm putting forced line breaks before the last word to 
achieve what I need, but I would really like to automate this!

Thanks for any help, hope the issue is clear.

Duncan

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Dotted leader in index entries

[Duncan Hothersall]

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