On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Eliot Kimber <ekimber@contrext.com> wrote:
Can we simply turn off the index entry processing in the OT plugins rather
than modifying the source?
Unless we're agreed that the index entries in the language reference
shouldn't be there at all.
Cheers,
E.
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On 7/14/15, 8:48 AM, "Kristen James Eberlein" <dita@lists.oasis-open.org
on behalf of kris@eberleinconsulting.com> wrote:
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> Great discussion, and I hope it will lead us to consensus on how we
> should index the DITA specification.
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> Given the number of items raised and the extent of people's strong
> feelings, I seriously doubt we will be able to provide any indexes
> in the PDF output for the DITA 1.3 release, however.
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> If that's the case, then we need to address the issue of the index
> that appears in the CHM. It's quite gnarly. I think we have a number
> of options:
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>1. Remove the index. (I'm not sure that this is possible; my
> memory is that index and TOC are tied together -- You either get
> both or none.)
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>2. Ignore it.
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>3. Comment out the index entries from the Language Reference;
> that will reduce most of the noise.
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>4. Index the currently topic clusters in the Architectural Spec
> that have not yet been indexed:
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> 1. Branch filtering
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> 2. Configuration et al
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> 3. Coding requirements
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> I doubt we have time for #4. #2 is a valid option; this is what
> we did for DITA 1.2. I think we need to strongly consider just
> implementing #3.
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> --
> Best,
> Kris
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> Kristen James Eberlein
> Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
> Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
> www.eberleinconsulting.com <http://www.eberleinconsulting.com>
> +1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)
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