On Monday 17 February 2003 18:35, Miller Maley wrote:
> I have some questions about the index (register) facility in ConTeXt.
>
> 1) I like that ConTeXt automatically breaks the index into portions
> by first letter, but how do I change the style of the subhead that
> says 'a', 'b', or whatever? Among other things, I would like these
> little subheads to be uppercase.
>
> 2) Sometimes a topic is referenced at two nearby places in the text.
> If these places fall on separate pages, I would like the index to
> mention both of them. If they fall on the same page, however, the
> index entry is duplicated. I expected texutil to remove duplicate
> index entries when sorting. Is it supposed to? (This is not a major
> problem; I can work around it.)
>
> 3) Likewise (this is a suggestion rather than a question) it would be
> nice if ConTeXt automatically transformed a sequence of 3 or more
> consecutive index entries (such as 10, 11, 12) into a page range
> (10-12). I realize there is a facility (\startindex...\stopindex) to
> get these page ranges manually, so again this is not a major issue.
>
> 4) If I have the command \seeindex{foo}{bar} and also \index{foo} on
> page 17, it would be nice if the index could say
>
> foo 17
> see also bar
>
> rather than just "see bar". Is there a way to get this behavior?
>
> -- Miller Maley
All these features are available in either Makeindex or Xindy.
Context hasn't got that far yet. I include the index.tex file from the
Texsis distribution and follow that package's conventions.
With Makeindex there is a parameter file that sets up the output
formatting.
See my previous post on this subject.
--
John Culleton
Books are cheaper than mistakes.
See http://wexfordpress.com/tex/pub.pdf
for reviews of excellent publishing books.
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