Re: [NTG-context] Preparing a weird index.

2014-06-27 Thread Gour
Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: See sort-lan.lua ... you could define a pseudo-language for this and use that one for sorting. The actual sorting is driven by a sequence of steps that (can) involve uppercase, lowercase, shape, unicode, specific order etc. It looks very good.

Re: [NTG-context] Preparing a weird index.

2014-06-27 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 27.06.2014 um 10:05 schrieb Gour g...@atmarama.net: Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: See sort-lan.lua ... you could define a pseudo-language for this and use that one for sorting. The actual sorting is driven by a sequence of steps that (can) involve uppercase, lowercase, shape,

Re: [NTG-context] Preparing a weird index.

2014-06-27 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/27/2014 10:05 AM, Gour wrote: Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: See sort-lan.lua ... you could define a pseudo-language for this and use that one for sorting. The actual sorting is driven by a sequence of steps that (can) involve uppercase, lowercase, shape, unicode, specific order etc.

Re: [NTG-context] Preparing a weird index.

2014-06-27 Thread Gour
Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com writes: Yes, the register mechanism provides a language key where you can specify the language which is used for the sorting of the entries. Excellent!! It's time to dive into ConTeXt again... Sincerely, Gour -- One must deliver himself with

Re: [NTG-context] Preparing a weird index.

2014-06-26 Thread Gour
john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com writes: Hello, I have looked into Xindy for this job but the learning curve is pretty steep and the documentation pretty opaque. makeindex won't handle decimals for locators. in the past when working on some books with the

Re: [NTG-context] Preparing a weird index.

2014-06-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/26/2014 4:17 PM, Gour wrote: Today after checking (again) I see that there are even some printed books and MkIV/LuaTeX seems to be quite stable, so I wonder about ConTeXt's capabilities to generate index/glossary in regard to xindy which is powerful, but I never really grokked it properly?

Re: [NTG-context] Preparing a weird index.

2014-06-26 Thread Gour
Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: i don't know xindy but normally the context mkiv index mechanism is flexible enough (and it can be configured) Here are some snippets from my old xindy setup... ;; define order of sorting runs (use-rule-set :run 0 :rule-set

[NTG-context] Preparing a weird index.

2014-04-05 Thread john Culleton
I have a customer that uses a publisher that has truly weird requirements. The weirdness is that the locaters are not page numbers but paragraph numbers. And some paragraph numbers start with the prefix 'BO' and others with the chapter number. so a correct sequence would be BO.15 3.2 A

Re: [NTG-context] Preparing a weird index.

2014-04-05 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/5/2014 9:42 PM, john Culleton wrote: I have a customer that uses a publisher that has truly weird requirements. The weirdness is that the locaters are not page numbers but paragraph numbers. And some paragraph numbers start with the prefix 'BO' and others with the chapter number. so a