Re: [docbook-apps] Another index-related question

[Richard Hamilton <dick@rlhamilton.net>]

Thanks very much (and thanks to Bob for his similar response).

I never even tried that (figured it wouldn't work:-).

Best Regards,
Dick
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On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Pc Thoms wrote:

> Hi Richard
> The following worked for me.
> 
> <index><title>Index</title>
> <para>
>     Names in parentheses indicate the parents of an individual. This convention is used to differentiate between individuals with the same name.
> </para>
> </index>
> 
> It validated and I was able to output to both html and pdf.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Richard Hamilton <dick@rlhamilton.net> wrote:
> As long as I'm harping on indexes, is there an easy way to get introductory text into the beginning of a generated index? I'd like to have a paragraph that describes typographical conventions in the index, or for another use case, be able to introduce a specialized index.
> 
> I could do this by hand, after the index is generated, but if there is a better, cleaner way to do this, it would be nice.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Dick
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