On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:50:49 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote:

On 4/14/2015 1:48 PM, Robert Blackstone wrote:

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Dear all,

The book I am typesetting contains a very extensive and detailed index. The number of index items is probably around 1200, 16 pages. A fair number of them occur in more than one chapter. Like bibliography items, and for the sake of consistency, I have stored them in some auxiliary files and it is a matter of copy and paste to get them into the text in the proper place and way. (With always a risk of accidentally deleting or adding a spurious brace or bracket, with nasty results.)

I wonder therefore whether it would be possible to handle them like bibliography items, by means of a key, and leave their expansion to ConTeXt.

Would it be possible? And if it is not (yet) possible, how could I perhaps tackle it?

so you want to remap given index entries to new ones? at what moment?

We index pretty heavily now in the new bibliography dataset subsystem, that is one can create an index of authors, an index of keywords, an index of titles, etc. as well as index the pages on which a reference is cited. All of the information is there. So say that you want to create a database of anything: words, images, phrases. You can put these into the database structure and then insert them or any associated information wherever you want in your text, later producing lists and indexes. Can you give an example of what type of information you extensively index with detail? Alan