Re: [dita] Are indexterm ranges backwards incompatible?

[Dana Spradley <dana.spradley@oracle.com>]

And I suppose the following switch as well:

• generate-page-ranges-for-ranged-indexterms: Yes/no
  

I agree that with such switches available, this issue would go away.

How do we mandate that they be put in the official DITA toolkit?

--Dana

Paul Prescod wrote:

The fact that the distinction is "sometimes made" suggests to me that this is another thing to put in the hands of the end user to express however their tool expresses it. One can imagine options to the DITA toolkit (or other publishing engine):

 

generate-page-ranges-for-index-entries-on-adjacent-pages: Yes/no

generate-page-ranges-for-entire-topics: Yes/no

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From: Chris Wong [mailto:cwong@idiominc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:04 AM
To: JoAnn Hackos; Grosso, Paul; dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [dita] Are indexterm ranges backwards incompatible?

"A distinction is sometimes made between continued discussion of a subject (index, for example, 34-36) and individual references to the subject on a series of pages (34, 35, 36). " -- 17.9, Chicago Manual of Style