Re: DOCBOOK: indexterms

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.COM> was heard to say:
| > From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
...
| >  </indexterm>
| > 
| > Would work, if you want the language to be tertiary.
| 
| First of all, this won't work because you have two
| closing tags for each <primary> and <secondary>
| opening tag.  But you knew that.  ;^)

Er. Yeah. :-)

| And this answer is going to mislead latecomers to this discussion
| into thinking that you code <indexterm>s with the index
| letter as the primary element, which is not correct.
| The index generating machinery will normally generate
| the letter headings like "L".  The original request was for
| an index that looks like this:

Egad, you're right. I didn't look closely. My bad. Don't do that! :-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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