Re: [NTG-context] [Context] Xindy

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"Mojca" == Mojca Miklavec writes:

Mojca> Hello Gour, This is not a question for this mailing list, but Mojca> rather for Hans himself.

OK.

Mojca> ConTeXt doesn't use makeindex, so I don't really understand your Mojca> complaints about makeindex.

Well, I mentioned 'makeindex' in the context of the tool which cannot properly handle Unicode, afaik.

Mojca> What features exactly do you miss?

I'm not sure if indexing-feature in ConTeXt allow me to use English, Croatian and Sanskrit diacritics (not Devanagari) all in one document and define that I want e.g. that \'{s}, \d{s} has to be sorted under 'Š' ?

In short, xindy allows one to define his own sort-rules.

you can define your own sort order (in mkiv this is somewhat easier because there we're in unicode space)

Mojca> It makes no sense to discuss distributing something before it can Mojca> be used with ConTeXt.)

Right, that's why also asked "Now I'm interested how is support for Xindy in ConTeXt" hoping that the context-distribution list has enough knowledgeable people able to answer it.

Excuse me for the noise...redirecting to other list...

personally i have no plans for using xindy (i looked into it real long ago but at that time it was rather latex oriented and could not carry enough info around which i want in context) currently the index mechanism in mkiv still uses the same tex interface when typesetting the index itself, but i will provide a more extensive mechanism (first i redo the sectioning and list); at that point we will also have one-pass index handling of course, if someone wants to write a m-xindy, i can provide additional interfaces/hooks if needed Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------