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 This facility may exist but the Context manual is a bit hard to follow on indexing. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________