Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Request For Clarification: Indexterm processing in auto-index generation.

[Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com>]

On Wed, Mar 12 2008 14:16:19 +0000, davep@dpawson.co.uk wrote:
> Norman Walsh wrote:
>> / Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com> was heard to say:
>> | On Wed, Mar 12 2008 12:18:29 +0000, ndw@nwalsh.com wrote:
>> | ...
>> |> Likewise, using pseudo-page numbers:
>> |>
>> |>   F
>> |>
>> |>     Foo, _1_, _2_
>> |>
>> |> is misleading because readers have been conditioned to think of those as
>> |> page numbers. A "1" under Foo should be the same place as a "1" under
>> |> Bar which simply won't be the case.
>> |
>> | FWIW, I think that scheme works okay in the CSS2 index at
>> | http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2/indexlist.html
>>
>> Bleh. I think it looks ridiculous. 
>
> Me too? It seems to be trying to outguess the author?

I expect that the authors made the HTML.

> A little bit M$  'ish?
>
> Peurile perhaps, rather than ridiculous Tony?

Maybe I've read the CSS spec so much that I'm starting to go blind, or
at least got used to its way of presenting the index.  I didn't say it
was perfect, and it could probably do with having the section title as
the title of each link, but I would still say that it works okay.

Regards,


Tony.
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