davep <da...@dpawson.co.uk> writes: >> Are you asking more about the indexing task itself or about the technical >> aspect? > > The docbook aspects please Thomas
The sources for The Definitive Guide have quite a bit of index markup from the O'Reilly copyedit. That might be a good place to look for examples. >> Speaking about the indexing task itself, IHMO this is something that some >> books don't take it seriously enough. An index is a service to make the book >> more accessible to readers. I've seen lots of bad index which came just as an >> alibi, but with no value. >> So it isn't a surprise that a good index takes time and energy. When I've >> created the index of my book, it took lots of iterations and I guess it still >> isn't perfect. :) Indexing is an art. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <n...@nwalsh.com> | There is no kind of dishonesty http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | into which otherwise good people Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | more easily and frequently fall | than that of defrauding the | government.--Benjamin Franklin
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