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[Taco Hoekwater <taco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gour wrote:
> Hello!
>
> ConTeXt distribution is supposed to be complete document processing
> system (without the need for e.g. TeXLive) for those users using ConTeXt
> macro package.
>
> One of the task to produce high-quality output is having appropriate
> index (and/or  glossary).
>
> However, makeindex is, afaik, not solution for International users using
> Unicode encoding and therefore new TeXLive-2008 (finally) includes
> Xindy.
>
> Now I'm interested how is support for Xindy in ConTeXt and it there is
> any plan to ship it within ConTeXt distribution?

From the Xindy website:

   There is neither a xindy distribution for Windows nor for Mac OS X.
   We would like to have one, but nobody has done the port yet.

That is a showstopper, I think.

Best wishes,
Taco