On Tuesday 23 May 2006 06:22, Richard Gabriel wrote:
Hello Hans,
after an upgrade I noticed thar the index sorting works even worse than before (tested on Czech, Chinese and Japanese, but probably related to non-ASCII characters in common).
With TeXExec 5.4.3, all words beginning with national (accented) characters were put into a separate ("symbols") group and placed before "A". This was not good but more or less acceptable. With TeXExec 6.2.0, words beginning with accented characters are placed under certain unaccented letter. My colleague found out that these words are sorted according the first unaccented letter. This is unacceptable and unusable.
We do a "work-around" so we try to avoid indexing words beginning with accented charaters. But it's impossible in many cases. I'd like to ask you to improve the index sorting. Could I help or contribute in some way?
Attached is a testing file, which creates 2 indexes from various Czech words (covering the Czech alphabet). The index should be sorted exactly that way as the terms are written in the file.
Thanks, Richard
Try Xindy. It has facilities for sorting according to arbitrary alphabetic orders including Czech. It fits in the workflow much as does makeindex, but perhaps it could be adapted to a Context runstream. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf