On 16 Apr 2015, at 15:38 , Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote
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> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Index items
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> On 4/15/2015 11:41 PM, Robert Blackstone wrote:
>>
>> On 15 Apr 2015, at 19:51 , Alan BRASLAU <alan.bras...@cea.fr> wrote
>>> Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/14/2015 1:48 PM, Robert Blackstone wrote:
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> The book I am typesetting contains a very extensive and detailed
>>>>> index. The number of index items is probably around 1200, 16 pages.
>>>>> A fair number of them occur in more than one chapter.
>>>>> Like bibliography items, and for the sake of consistency, I have
>>>>> stored them in some auxiliary files and it is a matter of copy and
>>>>> paste to get them into the text in the proper place and way. (With
>>>>> always a risk of accidentally deleting or adding a spurious brace
>>>>> or bracket, with nasty results.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder therefore whether it would be possible to handle them like
>>>>> bibliography items, by means of a key, and leave their expansion to
>>>>> ConTeXt.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would it be possible?
>>>>> And if it is not (yet) possible, how could I perhaps tackle it?
>>>>
>>>> so you want to remap given index entries to new ones? at what moment?
>>>
>>> We index pretty heavily now in the new bibliography dataset subsystem,
>>> that is one can create an index of authors, an index of keywords, an
>>> index of titles, etc. as well as index the pages on which a reference
>>> is cited. All of the information is there.
>>>
>>> So say that you want to create a database of anything: words, images,
>>> phrases. You can put these into the database structure and then insert
>>> them or any associated information wherever you want in your text,
>>> later producing lists and indexes.
>>>
>>> Can you give an example of what type of information you extensively
>>> index with detail?
>>>
>>> Alan
>> Hi Alan,
>> I realize that I have not yet reacted to Hans’ reply. So let me do that
>> first (it was written but not yet sent).
>>
>> Hi Hans,
>> Do I want to remap given index entries? Assuming I understand your reply
>> correctly the answer is: Yes, in principle. I would want to be able to
>> change them if there are errors, or if some publisher has different views
>> about the presentation of titles of items that are in the index (titles of
>> songs, for instance). And also when (parts of) the text has (have) to be
>> reused for other purposes. Change them in one operation, that is, not by
>> digging up all occurrences in the book of the item that has to be changed.
>>
>> In answer to Alan’s question: names, theoretical treatises and manuscripts,
>> musical works, musical terms. Nearly all examples in the book have several
>> features that have to be indexed: composer’s name, title of the published
>> work (an opera for instance), title of the particular aria of which the
>> example shows a fragment, and the special features that are shown in the
>> example, parallel 7ths, for example.
>> The not-so-minimal example below (best processed iwth mkiv) gives an
>> impression, also of the optical clumsiness that makes the unprocessed text
>> practically unreadable. That is another reason why I would like to be able
>> to call an index entry by means of some sort of key, like in bibliographic
>> items for footnotes.
>
> \startluacode
>
> document.indexentries = {
> ["rule"] = [[Rule(s)]],
> ["ruleimperfect"] = [[+ \quote{imperfect to perfect, from}]],
> ["galilei"] = [[Galilei, Vincenzo]],
> }
>
> function document.getindexentry(n)
> context("\\index[%s]{%s}",n,document.indexentries[n] or ("<" ..
> n .. ">"))
> end
>
> \stopluacode
>
> \unexpanded\def\InEn[#1]%
> {\ctxlua{document.getindexentry("#1")}}
>
> \starttext
> That this rule
> \InEn[rule]
> \InEn[ruleimperfect] was not applied by everybody is for example shown
> in {\em Fronimo}%
> \InEn[galilei]
>
> etc etc
Wow, this is super! Great improvement, also for the readability of the text.
Thank you very much, Hans.
Kind regards,
Robert
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