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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 92 12:21:15 +0100
From: tarjeij@extern.uio.no
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Subject:      Indexing
Status: R


How would a LaTeX3 user tell the indexing program how to sort? E.g. if I
were an English speaker I might want to sort \aa{} as a, but as a Norwegian I
would want it in its proper place after \ae{} and \o{}. Since these things
tend to depend on the document it would be nice if one could specify these
things in the document itself. A \seealso{} command would also be a nice
addition to \see{} in makeidx.sty.

BTW. How is the size of a page decided? Let's say that I have this CD-ROM with
15000 LaTeX documents and want to print them. How do I set up things so that I
automagically get A4 pages when I need them? I think an mechanism for selecting
these sort of defaults should be included into LaTeX3. How about a using a
scheme with multiple default.sty files? E.g. first do the one in TEX_INPUTS and
lastly the one in the current directory. In other words; first the site specific
version and then the personal (document) specific version. The default.sty would
contain default documentstyle options and spacing, etc.

Greetings,


// Tarjei T. Jensen - if it ain't broken, fix it anyway!
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