Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] question re: marking index terms

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:45:45AM +0100 or thereabouts, Pat Costello wrote:

> I'm a real beginner with Scrollkeeper. I have very little idea how 
> Scrollkeeper is going to pull index detail out of a document. 

Likewise. 

> I have a series of questions about Scrollkeeper, so it probably wouldn't 
> be a good idea to discuss them all in mail. What I need is a succint 
> document that explains: 
> 
> - What Scrollkeeper is. 
> - What Scrollkeeper does. 
> - How Scrollkeeper works. 
> - What writers need to do to their documents to make sure Scrollkeeper 
> works. 
> - What the role of the OMF file is for a) a whole book b) chapters in the 
> book. 
> - How writers create the OMF file. 
> 
> Would such a document exist? 

Laszlo offered to give a talk about it at GUADEC. I know very little
about it, so I shall be there, and I hope to take some notes. If the
document doesn't exist, I shall put the notes on the web. Warning: 
sometimes my notes are not very good :) But Laszlo can check them
first :) 

Telsa