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. > actually the nex texexec implementation does czech sorting but it's not enables yet in context itself (was experimental until now)
- download the latest version (i uploaded a version that enables it) - don't forget \mainlanguage[cz] at the top of your document - in sort-lan.tex you can see how czech sorting is defined (context adds a lot of into to the tui file in order to get sorting done) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context