On Mon, 26 May 2014 19:15:48 +0200 Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 5/26/2014 6:07 PM, john Culleton wrote: > > > > In the current General Manual section 12.7 > > "Registers" the command for actually printing > > the back of book index is omitted. What is > > it? Is it the same for both MKII and MKIV? > > > > Does one run the command texutil separate from > > the context command (analogous to running the > > makeindex command in other versions of TeX)? > > > > I can create an index separate from context > > using a front end to makeindex that I wrote > > years ago but I prefer an embedded index. > > producing an (sorted) index has always been > integrated > > - in mkii texexec handles it (using texutil for > all multi-pass pre- processing); the use never > had to run texutil him/herself; in fact, i once > made a replacement in Lua so that we could > avoid ruby but never finished it read: had time > to finish it > > - in mkiv sorting the index is done internally > > there has never been a reason for using > something makeindex > > Hans > > ps. texutil itself went from modula-2 to perl > to ruby ... so it's a real ancient part of > context >
Thanks. Now, what is the command to be placed at the back of the file to print the index? Section 12.7 just has a blank line after "A register is generated and placed in your document with" -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
