Re: [NTG-context] latest beta and \seeindex

25 Jun 2018


      "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. It
is enough that these things, though differing in matter, should be
similar in form, to permit their being, so to speak, cast in the same
mold. When the language has been carefully chosen, one is surprised to
discover that all proofs developed for a given object, can be
immediately applied to many new objects; there is nothing to be
changed, not even the words, since all the names have become the same."

(my translation)

;-)


On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:21:43 -0400
Alan Bowen  wrote:
...
I should add too that in this particular volume our contributors
sometimes mention different terms for the same thing as in “This is
called p or q”. Indexing both terms (p and q) separately and the
adding  x-ref is one way to go but indexing the more commonly used
term and adding a mere x-ref for the other is more efficient.
Alan
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 4:08 PM Henning Hraban Ramm 
wrote:
...
Am 2018-06-24 um 21:57 schrieb Hans Hagen :
...
...
The latest beta (ConTeXtver: 2018.06.23 12:12 MKIV betafmt:
2018.6.23)
...
In
\starttext
\index{sample}
\index{fun+games}\index{fun+stuff}
%\index{fun}
\seeindex{fun}{sample}% now with heading (as it should be)
\seeindex{fun}{blah}% not shown
\seeindex{fun}{humbug}% not shown
\seeindex{fun}{bug}% not shown
\seeindex{fun+games}{entertainment}% not shown
\placeindex[n=1]
\stoptext
When I generate the indices for my book, \seeindex{A}{B} works
only if  
it is a unique x-ref and A is a heading. Multiple x-refs to the same
On 6/23/2018 5:10 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:  
processes without a hitch but \seeindex is still not working as
expected.  
heading fail as do x-refs to subheadings.  
sure,
\seeindex{fun}{blah}                % not shown
\seeindex{fun}{humbug}              % not shown
\seeindex{fun}{bug}                 % not shown
as there is no index entry blah, humbug or bug ... so you would
be  
fooling your reader
I understand the rationale, and it could be a nice feature, but we
need to refer to entries in a different register, e.g. from an
index of topics to an index of persons, e.g.
\seeindex{Pragma}{Hagen, Hans} or to subentries like
\seeindex{fun+games}{bah+humbug}. Since the latter doesn’t work (or
does it now?), we use \seeindex{fun+games}{bah/humbug}.
Greetlings, Hraban
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Re: [NTG-context] latest beta and \seeindex

Alan Braslau