[tex-eplain] Using eplain indexing with Context

[John Culleton]

The Context indexing feature is inferior to the eplain-makeindex 
tandem in several ways. It won't create or accept page ranges for 
example. But the total eplain.tex macro set has several conflicts 
with Context in that both want to redefine \footnote etc.  

I have tried several times to whittle down eplain.tex to just the 
indexing code but it seems I always delete something important.  
There are lots of unexpected dependencies.  The book "TeX for the 
Impatient" on which eplain is based does not contain the indexing 
macros. 

Is there a file anywhere that contains only the indexing parts of 
makeindex,  but all the bits and pieces needed to make them work? 

Right now I am reduced to extracting the raw index items from the 
Context *.tui file and editing them by hand in gvim into an idx file.  


-- 
John Culleton
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