Bump. This is still a problem. Can anyone acknowledge that the problem exists outside my own installation? If so, is there a work-around? An explanation? On 10/21/2020 21:42, Rik Kabel wrote:

Hello list,

About two months ago (2020-08-26) I described a difference between LMTX and MkIV in the setting of index registers entries, and more particularly, in the trimming of text to fit the available width therein. I have now created a smallish example to demonstrate the problem.

I do notice that the problem is very sensitive to the width settings, and slight variations in width create different results with both engines.

This ConTeXt input:

\definepapersize [pinched crown quarto]                  [width=6.69in,                   height=9.61in] \setuppapersize  [pinched crown quarto] \setuplayout     [width=fit,                   backspace=1.4in,        cutspace=1in,                   leftmargin=0.65in,      rightmargin=0.65in]

\setupregister   [index]                  [n=2, balance=no, maxwidth=4cm]

\starttext

\startchapter[title={Index Test}]

\index{Anonymous+Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum} \index{{Diderot, Denis}+Et des boyaux du dernier prêtre, Serrons le cou du dernier roi} \index{{Dunne, Finley Peter}+Thrust ivrybody, but cut th’ ca-ards} \index{Eisenhower+Dwight D.+influence … by the military-industrial complex} \index{Eisenhower+Dwight D.+plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow}

\placeindex

\stopchapter \stoptext

produces, with MkIV:

and with LMTX:

The example code shows one other instance as well, in the fourth indexed entry.

Beside looking uglier, this results in a couple more pages for the same number of index entries.

As I noted in my first description of the problem, this may not be unique to register processing, and perhaps it is an issue with limitatetext or doboundtext, or something else entirely.

-- Rik