[NTG-context] [off-list, urgent] Index design

[Steffen Wolfrum]

OK, but there seems to be no out-of-the box solution like  
"alternative=b".
Is it at least that doable that someone could do it? I have no idea...

Steffen


Am 26.07.2006 um 09:40 schrieb Hans Hagen:

> Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> sorry for contacting you off-list. But the publishing-house I am
>> working for at the moment needs to know the answer to my "Index
>> design" question today.
>>
>> They have a series of books with a given index (register of keywords)
>> designed as described below.
>> This design was set in the past with 3B2, and now is the question: is
>> it also possible to set it (in this strange way) with ConTeXt?
>>
>>
>> Please see my description below (hope gets it's clear):
>>
>> Is it possible, in an index, not to have single letters as separators
>> (here "a", "w") in a dedicated line, but instead only the first  
>> letter of
>> the first entry with "a" or "w" set bold?
>>
>> See this minimal example:
>>
>> \setupoutput[pdftex]
>>
>> \starttext
>> \chapter{First Chapter}
>> Some text...\index{word}
>>
>> \section {First Section}
>> Some text...\index{word}
>> Some text...\index{another entry}
>> Some text...\index{ansi}
>> Some text...\index{another entry}
>>
>> \page[yes]
>> \completeindex
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>>
>> Here I would like to have only the first letter of the index entries
>> "another" and "word" in the index to be set bold.
> since tex is programmable, things like this are doable; of course  
> the question is "what tweaks are needed"; anyhow, it should not be  
> a show-stopper
>
> Hans
>
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