discuss: Indexing (was Re: XML)
Subject:
Re: Indexing (was Re: XML)
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
8 Aug 2003 22:11:48 -0000
Message-Id: <20030808222447.GA765@lafn.org>
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:17:42AM +0200, Stein Gjoen wrote:
> These examples brings up another topic that was not properly closed
> last time I looked into it...
>
> David Lawyer wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > Comparison of DocBook to LinuxDoc (short).
> > by David Lawyer, June 23, 2000, revised July 2001
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> >Example 2, index terms
> >DB <indexterm>
> >DB <primary>disk!introduction</primary>
> >DB </indexterm>
> >
> >LD <nidx>disk!introduction</nidx>
>
> OK, so what is proper use of the indexing terms? What is obvious
> is the structure "something!somethingelse" but just what is proper
> use of the words before and after the exclamation mark(s)?
Sorry. I just looked at an old reference manual for linuxdoc and it
pointed out that the index only works for latex format (using
sgml2latex). Furthermore, it's use requires some manual steps but the
author said he was working to fix that. Did he? But even if he did,
it's still only good for latex format.
So it wasn't a good example. I'm guessing that in the index one finds
"disk" as the main subject and "introduction" as a secondary subject
under disk.
David Lawyer
