Hi Richard
The following worked for me.
<index><title>Index</title>
<para>
Names in parentheses indicate the parents of an individual. This
convention is used to differentiate between individuals with the same name.
</para>
</index>
It validated and I was able to output to both html and pdf.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Richard Hamilton <[email protected]>wrote:
> As long as I'm harping on indexes, is there an easy way to get
> introductory text into the beginning of a generated index? I'd like to have
> a paragraph that describes typographical conventions in the index, or for
> another use case, be able to introduce a specialized index.
>
> I could do this by hand, after the index is generated, but if there is a
> better, cleaner way to do this, it would be nice.
>
> Best Regards,
> Dick
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