Hi, Henning. According to the garden, something like:
\def\Ort#1{\index[#1]{\ctxlua{user.Lookup("#1")}}}
as long as #1 is capable of being sorted in the normal way, should work.
Regards,
Jairo
El sáb., 1 de ago. de 2020 a la(s) 13:49, Henning Hraban Ramm (
te...@fiee.net) escribió:
>
>
> > Am 01.08.2020 um 13:22 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm <te...@fiee.net>:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > besides the CG journal I’m working on a scientific biography with huge
> person and locality indexes (named Person and Locality for the examples).
> >
> > In many cases, the author wants additional information in the index, e.g.
> >
> > \Locality{Altona (Hamburg)}
> > \Locality{Breslau (pol. Wrocław)}
> > or
> > \Person{Arends, Katharina (née Schoemaker)}
> > \Person{Wilhelm II. (Kaiser)}
> >
> > Now, I need that consistent and I don’t want to type these complicated
> entries every time.
> >
> > I’m looking for a good way to handle this – maybe a lookup table in Lua,
> so that
> > \LookupPerson{Willy II}
> > would call a Lua function that returns
> > \Person{Wilhelm II. (Kaiser)}
> > ?
> >
> > Or is there already something in place that I overlooked, like
> > \OverwriteIndexEntry{Hraban}{Ramm, Henning Hraban}
> > ?
>
> I came up with:
>
> \startluacode
> user.Lookups = {
> ["Albano"] = "Albano (Provinz Rom)",
> ["Altona"] = "Altona (Hamburg)",
> ["Aurich"] = "Aurich (Ostfriesland)"
> }
>
> function user.Lookup(Name)
> local Res = user.Lookups[Name]
> if Res then
> return context(Res)
> else
> return context(Name)
> end
> end
> \stopluacode
>
> \def\Ort#1{\index{\ctxlua{user.Lookup("#1")}}}
>
> \starttext
>
> \Ort{Albano}
> \Ort{Altona}
> \Ort{Aurich}
> \strut\page
>
> \placeindex
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> The lookup works so far, but all the entries get sorted unter C (because
> of \ctxlua).
>
> I remember I had the same problem with other macros (like
> \index{\emph{bla}}), but can’t find a solution in my usual sources.
>
>
> Hraban
>
>
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