RE: indexing

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Sangrey [mailto:mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 9:06 AM
> To: gnome-doc-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: indexing 
> 
> jfleck@inkstain.net said:
> >  Also, it seems to link to the beginning of the section rather than
> > the spot where your indexterm occurs.  
> 
> This has more to do with the semantics of an index; that is, 
> why one provides 
> an indexed term in the first place.
> 
> What the index user is looking for is some content about `foo'.  The 
> assumption is that the section will provide that content.  
> One doesn't want to 
> index every occurrence of `foo', just the ones that provide content.

By this same token, it would make more sense to link to the paragraph where
the term occurs, not to the section.  A section could be dozens of
paragraphs, and perhaps only 1 of those is relavent.  Given that, it should
link to where the indexer has put the indexterm markup, and assume that the
indexer is smarter than the script is (which SHOULD be the case).  
	Greg