I should add too that in this particular volume our contributors sometimes mention different terms for the same thing as in “This is called p or q”. Indexing both terms (p and q) separately and the adding x-ref is one way to go but indexing the more commonly used term and adding a mere x-ref for the other is more efficient. Alan On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 4:08 PM Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Am 2018-06-24 um 21:57 schrieb Hans Hagen :

...

...

The latest beta (ConTeXtver: 2018.06.23 12:12 MKIV betafmt: 2018.6.23)

...

In \starttext \index{sample} \index{fun+games}\index{fun+stuff} %\index{fun} \seeindex{fun}{sample}% now with heading (as it should be) \seeindex{fun}{blah}% not shown \seeindex{fun}{humbug}% not shown \seeindex{fun}{bug}% not shown \seeindex{fun+games}{entertainment}% not shown \placeindex[n=1] \stoptext When I generate the indices for my book, \seeindex{A}{B} works only if it is a unique x-ref and A is a heading. Multiple x-refs to the same

On 6/23/2018 5:10 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: processes without a hitch but \seeindex is still not working as expected. heading fail as do x-refs to subheadings. sure,

\seeindex{fun}{blah} % not shown \seeindex{fun}{humbug} % not shown \seeindex{fun}{bug} % not shown

as there is no index entry blah, humbug or bug ... so you would be fooling your reader

I understand the rationale, and it could be a nice feature, but we need to refer to entries in a different register, e.g. from an index of topics to an index of persons, e.g. \seeindex{Pragma}{Hagen, Hans} or to subentries like \seeindex{fun+games}{bah+humbug}. Since the latter doesn’t work (or does it now?), we use \seeindex{fun+games}{bah/humbug}.

Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net

___________________________________________________________________________________

Am 2018-06-24 um 21:57 schrieb Hans Hagen :

...

On 6/23/2018 5:10 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:

...

The latest beta (ConTeXtver: 2018.06.23 12:12 MKIV betafmt: 2018.6.23) processes without a hitch but \seeindex is still not working as expected. In \starttext \index{sample} \index{fun+games}\index{fun+stuff} %\index{fun} \seeindex{fun}{sample}% now with heading (as it should be) \seeindex{fun}{blah}% not shown \seeindex{fun}{humbug}% not shown \seeindex{fun}{bug}% not shown \seeindex{fun+games}{entertainment}% not shown \placeindex[n=1] \stoptext When I generate the indices for my book, \seeindex{A}{B} works only if it is a unique x-ref and A is a heading. Multiple x-refs to the same heading fail as do x-refs to subheadings. sure,

\seeindex{fun}{blah} % not shown \seeindex{fun}{humbug} % not shown \seeindex{fun}{bug} % not shown

as there is no index entry blah, humbug or bug ... so you would be fooling your reader

I understand the rationale, and it could be a nice feature, but we need to refer to entries in a different register, e.g. from an index of topics to an index of persons, e.g. \seeindex{Pragma}{Hagen, Hans} or to subentries like \seeindex{fun+games}{bah+humbug}. Since the latter doesn’t work (or does it now?), we use \seeindex{fun+games}{bah/humbug}. hm, sounds like a crappy index to mee (i actually hate these indexes

On 6/24/2018 10:07 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: that force you to 'see' somplace else .. extra lookup) anyway, i'll add check=no to placeregister so that one can bypass the check (but i cannot foresee side effects like missing references in interactiev documents so these have to be taken for granted) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On 6/24/2018 10:07 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

...

...

\starttext \index{sample} \index{fun+games}\index{fun+stuff} %\index{fun}

btw, index entries will only work well with an anchor so loose \index without something following it will not show the right page numbers (if at all) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On 6/25/2018 4:01 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Am 2018-06-25 um 14:18 schrieb Hans Hagen :

...

On 6/24/2018 10:07 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

...

...

...

\starttext \index{sample} \index{fun+games}\index{fun+stuff} %\index{fun}

btw, index entries will only work well with an anchor so loose \index without something following it will not show the right page numbers (if at all)

I don’t understand - why should I try a bare \index? your example had so i had to add some bogus content (anyway, i now inject a placeholder as warning anyway)

Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------