/ Dave Pawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Bob Stayton wrote: |> FrameMaker's online help index uses this format: |> |> cats [1] |> dogs [1] [2] |> |> where the [1] is the hot text that takes you to the point |> destination. All entries have [1], and any duplicates get more |> numbers. It is pretty obvious that those are not page numbers. |> |> Just another suggestion. | | My basic point is that the author should identify duplicates | (perhaps from viewing the presented format) and do something about it.
But that flies completely in the face of 500-or-so years of indexing
tradition.
Terms in an index identify concepts that may be discussed in several
places in a document. In general, *the same concept* may be discussed
in several places; in such cases, it would not only be an excruciating
exercise for the author to differentiate them in some way, *it would
be wrong*.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Whoever is abandoned by hope has
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | also been abandoned by fear; this
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | is the meaning of the word
| "desperate."-- Schopenhauer
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