Question

Can someone clarify how to use <$autorange> on the index reference page?

K.Daube · Accepted Answer

A brief note on https://www.daube.ch/docu/files/compendium.pdf#page=402 tells that this is used to combine successive index entries into one:

Topic on page 312

Topic on page 313

Topic on page 315

→ Topic on page 312 – 315

Barb Binder · Answer

I didn't even know that building block existed when I sat down to drink my coffee.

So after playing with it for the first time—and writing this is to help me remember how it works—<$autorange> is used to collapse the entries generated from markers of type Index into page ranges when possible.

If I have an index marker for Hue on pages 2, 3, 4 and 6, this is the default result:

But adding <$autorange> in front of <$pagenum> on the IX reference page:

tells Fm to automatically collapse the entries. No startrange/endrange pairs required.

Who knew? Thanks, @K.Daube!!

~Barb

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