Am 2019-04-02 um 18:53 schrieb Hans Hagen :

On 4/2/2019 11:54 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Ahoi, with \setupregister[compress=yes], index entries 1,2,3,4 become 1–4. That’s great. But (at least in German publications) it’s usual that 1,2 becomes 1f. and 1,2,3 becomes 1ff. Is it possible to configure it that way? it should not be too hard to program but, it being german problem:

- you have to come up with an example - wolfgang has to come up with a proper keyword (compress=?)

Thank you – it’s not only a German habit, even if we pronounce it “folgende”, “f.” stems from Latin “folio”, and “ff.” is a duplicated abbreviation, as was usual in mediaeval Latin. So, this is at least used in English, German, Norwegian and Swedish, as far as I could find. In French they seem to use “sq.” and “sqq.” (sequens). https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/ff. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ff. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/sq. I suggest the following setup options: compress = no —> don’t collapse (as now) compress = yes —> always use – (as now) compresssymbols={\,f.,\,ff.} (or how can you setup a list?) compress = symbols —> use first symbol for one other page, second for more pages if there’s only one symbol, more than one sequential page should use – (like “yes”) Is this feasible? As far as I see, we need this only for index entries, i.e. \setupregister, since there’s no command like \at for more than one page anyway; or is there a need to collapse pages in bibliographies? Test case: \usemodule[visual] \setuppapersize[A6] \setupregister[index][ compress=yes, %compresssymbols={\,f.,\,ff.}, %compress=symbols, ] \starttext \placeindex\index{nonsense} \page \strut\index{something}\page \strut\index{something}\page \dorecurse{7}{ \fakewords{10}{100}\index{something}\par \fakewords{20}{200}\index{other}\par \fakewords{10}{100}\index{something}\par } \index{finis} % not flushed? \stoptext Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

On 3. Apr 2019, at 10:56, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Thank you – it’s not only a German habit, even if we pronounce it “folgende”, “f.” stems from Latin “folio”, and “ff.” is a duplicated abbreviation, as was usual in mediaeval Latin. So, this is at least used in English, German, Norwegian and Swedish, as far as I could find. In French they seem to use “sq.” and “sqq.” (sequens).

I’m not sure the abbreviation for “folio” has anything to do with our German “folgende”; if you have a link for this, I would like to know. And for the record: “ff.” for page ranges is now discouraged in most scholarly publications; journals and publishers now say f. for x - x+1, or exact page numbers. Thomas

On 4/3/2019 10:56 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Am 2019-04-02 um 18:53 schrieb Hans Hagen :

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On 4/2/2019 11:54 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Ahoi, with \setupregister[compress=yes], index entries 1,2,3,4 become 1–4. That’s great. But (at least in German publications) it’s usual that 1,2 becomes 1f. and 1,2,3 becomes 1ff. Is it possible to configure it that way? it should not be too hard to program but, it being german problem:

- you have to come up with an example - wolfgang has to come up with a proper keyword (compress=?)

Thank you – it’s not only a German habit, even if we pronounce it “folgende”, “f.” stems from Latin “folio”, and “ff.” is a duplicated abbreviation, as was usual in mediaeval Latin. So, this is at least used in English, German, Norwegian and Swedish, as far as I could find. In French they seem to use “sq.” and “sqq.” (sequens).

https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/ff. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ff. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/sq.

I suggest the following setup options:

compress = no —> don’t collapse (as now) compress = yes —> always use – (as now)

compresssymbols={\,f.,\,ff.} (or how can you setup a list?) compress = symbols —> use first symbol for one other page, second for more pages if there’s only one symbol, more than one sequential page should use – (like “yes”)

Is this feasible?

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