I've seen no response to my query (below), which makes me think it's either too newbee or too hard.
Can anyone give me an example of an indexterm in a footnote? Just an example is all I need... Or else tell me that the tentative example I gave below is the way it's supposed to be. Mike Maxwell On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:00:37 -0400, maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu> wrote: > In the description of footnotes in the DocBook 5 documentation > http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/footnote.html > under the section "Additional Constraints" it lists the following > constraint: > indexterm must not occur in the descendants of footnote > I'm confused about how indexterms are supposed to be used in footnotes. > Typically (I think) you have a para inside the footnote (at least that's > how the example works on that same page). The implication of the above > constraint would then be that any indexterm in a footnote has to be outside > the text of the footnote, I guess like this: > > <para>An annual percentage rate<footnote> > <indexterm>...prime rate...</indexterm> > <para>The prime rate, as published in the <citetitle>Wall Street > Journal</citetitle> on the first business day of the month, > plus 7.0%. > </para> > </footnote> > ... > > Is that the intention? One perhaps undesirable result of this would be > that if the footnote extends over two pages, the indexterm might point to > the wrong page. Or is the expectation that in the output document, the > index would say something like "prime rate: 23 footnote 7"? > > (Of course, one might say that footnotes should never extend over more than > one page. That's a rule we academics tend to break...) > > Mike Maxwell > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
