Re: [Context] Xindy

From: Gour <gour@mail.inet.hr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: [Context] Xindy
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:08:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxo4dqxq.fsf@nitai.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48CB9421.8080605@wxs.nl> (Hans Hagen's message of "Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:21:21 +0200")

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>>>>> "Hans" == Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

Hans> you can define your own sort order (in mkiv this is somewhat
Hans> easier because there we're in unicode space)

Well, Xindy works with utf-8, but it 's nice to hear about mkiv's
features.

Hans> personally i have no plans for using xindy (i looked into it real
Hans> long ago but at that time it was rather latex oriented and could
Hans> not carry enough info around which i want in context)

Hmm, iirc, (it was long ago when I read Xindy's docs), Xindy is quite
markup agnostic. The very web site says:

"xindy is an index processor that can be used to generate book-like
indexes for arbitrary document-preparation systems. This includes
systems such as TeX and LaTeX, the roff-family, SGML/XML-based systems
(e.g., HTML) that process some kind of text and generate indexing
information. The kernel system is not fixed to any specific system, but
can be configured to work together with such systems."

You can also read http://xindy.sourceforge.net/features.html page...

Can ConTeXt process e.g. indexes like Bible's example mentioned under
"Manage Non-Standard Locations" section in the above page?

Hans> of course, if someone wants to write a m-xindy, i can provide
Hans> additional interfaces/hooks if needed

I'll be definitely interested to have it. However, probably not enough
time before the end of the year.

m-xindy is tsupposed to be written in TeX macro or Lua?

Sincerely,
Gour

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