On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:50 PM, John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 21 July 2008 02:16:04 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:38 PM, John Culleton
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Usually I use makeindex for indexing but for my current job I
>> > thought the Context \index command would be convenient. However I
>> > discovered that the \index command does not provide for page
>> > ranges. If I index the same item on pages 46, 47, 48, and 49
>> > makeindex will collapse this into a range of 46-49. Context
>> > won't.
>> >
>> > I looked at the book.tuo file but it does not look like something
>> > I can hand-modify.
>> >
>> > Is there a work-around I have missed or must I revert to
>> > makeindex to get a proper index?
>> >
>> > I am ccing Hans because my posts don't seem to make their way to
>> > the list for some reason. Perhaps Comcast has torpedoed me once
>> > again.
>>
>> \placeindex[compress=yes]
>>
>> Regards,
>> Wolfgang
>
> your suggestion to use compress=yes works well. Thanks. Such
> compression is essential in many works. Now I wonder if there is a
> Context command like eplain's range commands which occur in pairs:
> \sidx[begin]{foo}
> ...
> \sidx[end]{foo}
>
> The same effect in LaTeX is a bit more cryptic:
> \index{foo|(}
> ...
> \index{foo|)}
>
> Either form includes all the pages between the two commands as entries
> under foo, e.g.,
> foo 24-68
\startregister[index][knuthrange]{knuth}
...
\stopregister[index][knuthrange]
Don't know why it is not possible to use \startindex ... \stopindex as short
form for \startregister[index] ... \stopregister[index]
> This facility may exist but the Context manual is a bit hard to follow
> on indexing.
The list has many example, you should use "index", "register" or
"Steffen Wolfrum" in the search field to find them.
Regards,
Wolfgang
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