[NTG-context] Re: more register questions!

[mf <massifr@fastwebnet.it>]

Il 02/05/24 17:01, Thomas A. Schmitz ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> making wonderful progress on my registers and translating from xml. 
> There is one thing I can't figure out (and I or some other good soul may 
> have asked in the past...). Is it possible to mark occurrences in 
> footnotes? Ideally, the entry in the register would look like
> 
> p. 100\high{20}
> 
> to show that the term occurs in note 20 on p. 100. But if that's asking 
> too much, I would be content with applying a processor (say, italic) to 
> these register entries. From the looks of the tuc file, Context doesn't 
> appear to "know" that a register entry is within a footnote. But Hans 
> never ceases to amaze me, so maybe there is a way (short of applying 
> special markup to these notes in the source)?
> 

I did something like that, with a processor that added a "n" after the 
occurrence page number.

Since you typeset XML, maybe you can detect that an index (register) 
reference happens inside a note from the DOM element you are typesetting.

Then you use a command like this:

\index[NoteProcessor->sortkey]{index term}

where NoteProcessor is defined like this:

\defineprocessor[NoteProcessor][right={\itx n}]

In this case I'm adding a smaller "n" to the right of the page number of 
the occurrence.

Adding the \high style is not difficult:

\defineprocessor[NoteProcessor][right=\high{n}]

but replacing a fixed "n" with the footnote number is quite challenging.

The second argument of \defineprocessor has a "command=\...##1" option 
that could be exploited, but I don't know exactly what gets passed to 
that custom command as ##1; maybe the page number of the occurrence.

In that case, I'd look for a way to store the association between that 
occurrence and the footnote number, and retrieve that in the custom command.

Massi
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