On Tuesday 23 May 2006 06:22, Richard Gabriel wrote:
> Hello Hans,
>
> after an upgrade I noticed thar the index sorting works even worse than
> before (tested on Czech, Chinese and Japanese, but probably related to
> non-ASCII characters in common).
>
> With TeXExec 5.4.3, all words beginning with national (accented) characters
> were put into a separate ("symbols") group and placed before "A". This was
> not good but more or less acceptable. With TeXExec 6.2.0, words beginning
> with accented characters are placed under certain unaccented letter. My
> colleague found out that these words are sorted according the first
> unaccented letter. This is unacceptable and unusable.
>
> We do a "work-around" so we try to avoid indexing words beginning with
> accented charaters. But it's impossible in many cases. I'd like to ask you
> to improve the index sorting. Could I help or contribute in some way?
>
> Attached is a testing file, which creates 2 indexes from various Czech
> words (covering the Czech alphabet). The index should be sorted exactly
> that way as the terms are written in the file.
>
> Thanks,
> RichardTry Xindy. It has facilities for sorting according to arbitrary alphabetic orders including Czech. It fits in the workflow much as does makeindex, but perhaps it could be adapted to a Context runstream. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
