On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:50 PM, John Culleton wrote:

On Monday 21 July 2008 02:16:04 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:38 PM, John Culleton wrote:

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Usually I use makeindex for indexing but for my current job I thought the Context \index command would be convenient. However I discovered that the \index command does not provide for page ranges. If I index the same item on pages 46, 47, 48, and 49 makeindex will collapse this into a range of 46-49. Context won't.

I looked at the book.tuo file but it does not look like something I can hand-modify.

Is there a work-around I have missed or must I revert to makeindex to get a proper index?

I am ccing Hans because my posts don't seem to make their way to the list for some reason. Perhaps Comcast has torpedoed me once again.

\placeindex[compress=yes]

Regards, Wolfgang

your suggestion to use compress=yes works well. Thanks. Such compression is essential in many works. Now I wonder if there is a Context command like eplain's range commands which occur in pairs: \sidx[begin]{foo} ... \sidx[end]{foo}

The same effect in LaTeX is a bit more cryptic: \index{foo|(} ... \index{foo|)}

Either form includes all the pages between the two commands as entries under foo, e.g., foo 24-68

\startregister[index][knuthrange]{knuth} ... \stopregister[index][knuthrange] Don't know why it is not possible to use \startindex ... \stopindex as short form for \startregister[index] ... \stopregister[index]

This facility may exist but the Context manual is a bit hard to follow on indexing.

The list has many example, you should use "index", "register" or "Steffen Wolfrum" in the search field to find them. Regards, Wolfgang