Reply To: CS4: The dreaded Index …

Apparently, none of the “entire range of our user base” (quoth Michael Ninness) are using indexes :-(

Oh — and I said

For me it's a snap to re-write those scripts to “manually” generate a correct index, sorted and all.

… well … Besides being +700 pp., it's also about Eastern European writers. After I finally had generated a correct index, with all the right page numbers in the right order (and even concatenated ranges like “11,12,13” into “11-13” — another trick that might leave Adobe engineers baffled by my ingenuity) … entries such as “?apek, Karel” (the Czech playwright that coined the term “robot” for a 'mechanical worker') appeared at the very end of the index. Javascript is not good at Unicode sorting …

So I had to implement on-the-fly removing of accents as well as a custom “sort-by” … But I think I got it, after several hours of frantic trying. There are still a few weird cases but at least everything seems to be there.