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Subject: RE: [dita] Are indexterm ranges backwards incompatible?
I generally agree with Bruce here.
But I also need to take issue with:
new ranged indexterms they add would cause these old point indexterms to
be misinterpreted
With our existing indexterm markup, you cannot distinguish
between use of indexterms and ranges by looking at the resulting index. An
indexterm marks a point, and the page on which that point falls will be included
in the resulting index. An index range marks a start and end point, and all
pages starting with the one on which the start point falls and ending with the
one on which the end point falls will be included in the resulting
index.
Unless one has a fancier indexing process whereby one can,
say, request a bold page number in the index for the most important reference
and italic page numbers for pages on which there are related figures, etc.,
there is no distinction among page numbers in the resulting index.
Looking at the resulting index, one cannot tell if
index-page-range markup was used to create that index or not. A resulting index
entry of:
cheese 2, 5-8, 12
could have been generated by pointwise indexterm markup
throughout the source that just so happened to end up being points on pages 2,
5, 6, 7, 8, and 12.
paul
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