Re: index questions - again

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Mar 13, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

>> OK, I tried a hack, and I just wanted to ask if there's anything
>> wrong with it: as dirty workaround, I added a fourth key to
>> dostartregister:
>>
>>
>> \def\startregister
>>    {\doquadrupleempty\dostartregister}
>>
>> \def\dostartregister[#1][#2][#3][#4]#5%
>>    {\chardef\registerpagestatus\plustwo
>>     \def\currentregister{#1}%
>>     \setgvalue{\??id#1\??id#2}{\dodostopregister[#1][#3]{#5}}%
>>     \dodoregister[#3]{#4}{#5}}
>>
>> and after a quick test, this seems to do what I want. The endash
>> between numbers is not bold, but I could live with that. Any comments
>> from the developers?
>>
>>
> looks harmless to me so we can patch that
>

Hmm, I'm not quite sure I'm doing the right thing. I thought I could  
have 4 arguments in []:

\startregister[name of register][key for range][type of register] 
[sort key]{register entry}

but the [sort key] doesn't seem to work. The hack is OK for me now,  
but it may not be good for the distribution.


> can you also provide the appropriate cont-en.xml entry


Would like to, but comparing "register" to "startregister," I don't  
see anything that has to be changed?


<cd:command name="register" generated="yes" file="core-reg.tex">
   <cd:sequence>
     <cd:variable value="register"/>
   </cd:sequence>
   <cd:arguments>
     <cd:keywords optional="yes">
       <cd:constant type="cd:text"/>
     </cd:keywords>
     <cd:index list="yes"/>
   </cd:arguments>
</cd:command>

<cd:command name="startregister" generated="yes" file="core-reg.tex">
   <cd:sequence>
     <cd:string value="start"/>
     <cd:variable value="register"/>
   </cd:sequence>
   <cd:arguments>
     <cd:keywords optional="yes">
       <cd:constant type="cd:text"/>
     </cd:keywords>
     <cd:index list="yes"/>
   </cd:arguments>
</cd:command>

Best

Thomas