Hello, First of I'd like to introduce myself to this mailing-list. I'm the author of `xindy' a new index processor that will (in our opinion) be the successor of the well-known `makeindex' system. If you are interested in what are the most important features of xindy visit our offical homepage http://www.iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/xindy There exists a mailing-list about xindy (additional information can be found on our homepage) and we are currently discussing how xindy should deal with the sorting of language- (or even document-)specific alphabets. This problem seems to be of general interest and therefore I'd like to bring it into broader discussion. I've prepared a short paper discussing the sort mapping feature of xindy. The current implementation seems to be not powerful enough to handle arbitrary sorting rules, thus we have to think about a better solution. The discussion paper and additional information about the problem can be found in the section "Discussion" on the xindy homepage. You are welcome to subscribe to our mailing list and participate in the discussion. Bye Roger -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Kehr [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------------