Norman Walsh wrote:
/ 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.
html hasn't been around for 500 years Norm. I think that's one of
the sticking points for me?
The print model has the page number as the 'hot text'.
The html model hasn't, hence my suggestion for the simplest
model that works.
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*.
Hence my suggestion to 'hint' to the author that secondary terms
indicating that this concept is discussed (differently) in different
places.
regards
--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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