On 06/05/12 01:23, David Cramer wrote:
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On 05/05/2012 10:38 AM, davep wrote:
1. Stick with what we have now. 2. Use the table solution and
accept the limitation that all lines must always be the same
height.
Why is this an issue Norm? How often in
On 05/05/12 18:57, Richard Hamilton wrote:
Dave,
Regarding the markup mechanics, here are two possibly unexpected things to look
out for:
1) When you are doing a range, the closing index term in the range cannot
follow a section close. I.e., If you have the following
some text.
On 05/05/12 17:17, Norman Walsh wrote:
davep writes:
I did made a note to for myself some time back that an inside a
footnote caused an error. I was using oXygenXML v12 at the time. Not sure
if this is still the case.
"Footnotes aren't normally indexed" is one piece of advice. So perhaps
do
On 05/05/12 17:15, Norman Walsh wrote:
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.
Indexing is an art.
Yes. Exactly how it's described in this book I'm reading.
Tks for the reference, I'll
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On 05/05/2012 10:38 AM, davep wrote:
>> 1. Stick with what we have now. 2. Use the table solution and
>> accept the limitation that all lines must always be the same
>> height.
>
> Why is this an issue Norm? How often in a fixed width font do users
>
Dave,
Regarding the markup mechanics, here are two possibly unexpected things to look
out for:
1) When you are doing a range, the closing index term in the range cannot
follow a section close. I.e., If you have the following
some text.
Generally this is not a problem, s
That would be great for me.
I was working on a public domain text which had a footnotes indexed, when I
encountered an error in validating the xml.
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Norman Walsh wrote:
> davep writes:
> >> I did made a note to for myself some time back that an
> inside a
> >> f
davep writes:
>> I did made a note to for myself some time back that an inside a
>> footnote caused an error. I was using oXygenXML v12 at the time. Not sure
>> if this is still the case.
>
> "Footnotes aren't normally indexed" is one piece of advice. So perhaps
> docbook is right.
I have a vagu
davep 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.
>> Speaki
Hi Dave
Here is another example with quotations. This from a legacy project, which
is most of my work.
“Banks,” The
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:05 PM, davep wrote:
> On 05/05/12 12:52, PC Thoms wrote:
>
>> Hi Dave
>>
>> Mulvany's text is an excellent indexing manual.
>> The Chicago Manual of S
On 05/05/12 14:33, Norman Walsh wrote:
Hello world,
The current rendering for verbatim environments, when line numbers are
enabled, has a significant deficiency: you can't cut-and-paste the
listing without also getting the line numbers and separators.
Looking around at other sites with numbered
On 05/05/12 12:52, PC Thoms wrote:
Hi Dave
Mulvany's text is an excellent indexing manual.
The Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html)
has a concise chapter on indexing. A free trail is available, and this
manual is usually available at a library in the referenc
On 05/05/12 11:00, Thomas Schraitle wrote:
Any advice from those with lots of experience of using
db indexes please?
Are you asking more about the indexing task itself or about the technical
aspect?
The docbook aspects please Thomas
Speaking about the indexing task itself, IHMO this is som
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On 05/05/2012 08:33 AM, Norman Walsh wrote:
> That works, mostly, but if anything in the listing causes a
> variation in line height (such as a larger callout), the numbers
> and the lines get out of sync.
Hi Norm,
We encountered the line height probl
Hello world,
The current rendering for verbatim environments, when line numbers are
enabled, has a significant deficiency: you can't cut-and-paste the
listing without also getting the line numbers and separators.
Looking around at other sites with numbered program listings, the
solution seems to
Hi Dave
Mulvany's text is an excellent indexing manual.
The Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html)
has a concise chapter on indexing. A free trail is available, and this
manual is usually available at a library in the reference section.
I have indexed books using
Hi Dave,
Am Samstag, 5. Mai 2012, 08:10:05 schrieb davep:
> I'm about to start indexing a db5 book.
> Reading up on the subject(Nancy C. Mulvany) and wondered if anyone has
> been there and done that, got the tee-shirt and found the pitfalls in
> docbook?
I don't know this author, so I can only s
I'm about to start indexing a db5 book.
Reading up on the subject(Nancy C. Mulvany) and wondered if anyone has
been there and done that, got the tee-shirt and found the pitfalls in
docbook? Any advice from those with lots of experience of using
db indexes please?
regards
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