Re: indexing

[Erik Jarvi <ejarvi megsinet net>]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 10:57:39PM -0600, John Fleck wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:38:40PM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> > Index (in document) - This is what you always see in the back of books. It
> > lists a lot of words and concepts in the book and lists the relevant page
> > numbers.  In DocBook, you do the indexing by hand using <index>,
> > <indexterm>, ...  This produces an index at the end of your document, as
> > you would find in a book.  The main work here is having somebody who knows
> > how to index (which is an art unto itself) go through and put in the
> > indexing tags. 
> 
> Does this mean that once we manually mark up our documents with
> <indexterm> etc tags, the help browser automatically gins up an index
> in the back of our "book" based on our index tagging? This does not
> seem to occur with the current tools we're using. Will it with the 
> new help system?

I haven't had this work either. In the new gtcd doc:

  <index>
  <indexterm><primary>GNOME Mixer</primary><secondary>gmix</secondary>
    <seealso>gtcd</seealso><seealso>grecord</seealso><seealso>grip</seealso>
  </indexterm>
  </index>

Intutively this seems correct indexing. I haven't taken a look at the links 
yet, tho.

Erik
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