Re: Glossary index [was: how to get notes without tails?]

[David Kastrup]

"Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Albrecht wrote Sunday, August 30, 2015 8:58 PM
>>
>> Am 30.08.2015 um 21:52 schrieb Trevor Daniels:
>>>
>>> It would be a great help, I think, to add all the non-English terms to the
>>> Glossary Index.  That would be easy to do, but very laborious and
>>> time-consuming.  Just needs someone to do it ....
>>
>> Or someone with the proficiency and time to write a script?
>
> Actually I don't think that would be very difficult.
>
> A typical entry header looks like this:
>
> @node acciaccatura
> @section acciaccatura
>
> ES: mordente de una nota,
> I: acciaccatura,
> F: acciaccatura, appoggiature brève,
> D: Zusammenschlag,
> NL: samenslag,
> DK: ?,
> S: ?,
> FI: ?.
>
> The script would need to extract the rest of each line beginning
> @section, ES:, I: etc.  Remove duplicates, remove ?s, and
> for each of the remainder insert a new line containing that extract
> prefixed by @cindex.  Repeat for the next @node.

It would probably make sense to create separate indices for every
language.

-- 
David Kastrup