Re: [docbook-apps] Indexing.

[PC Thoms <pcthoms@gmail.com>]

 Hi Dave

Mulvany's text is an excellent indexing manual.

The Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html) has a concise chapter on indexing. A free trail is available, and this manual is usually available at a library in the reference section.

I have indexed books using docbook and TEI.

And my preference is docbook.

I did made a note to for myself some time back that an <indexterm> inside a footnote caused an error. I was using oXygenXML v12 at the time. Not sure if this is still the case.

I did have a problem with the placement of the <indexterm> but that was answered at:

http://www.docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/indexterm.singular.html

Whitespace around <indexterm> may affect placement of the IDs in PDFs generated.

Here are two examples of the <indexterm> that have worked for me.

<!-- SIMPLE INDEX ENTRY EXAMPLE  -->

SHAKESPEARE<indexterm><primary>Shakespeare</primary></indexterm>

<!-- STARTOFRANGE TO ENDOFRANGE  -->

<indexterm class="startofrange" xml:id="aaa1">

<primary sortas=" Shakespeare ">The Shakespeare</primary>

</indexterm>

 . . . . 

 . . . . 

<indexterm class="endofrange" startref="aaa1" />

Overall I have been pretty satisfied indexing with docbook.

And Dave, I know you are familiar with Bob Sagehill's book which has the following:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/GenerateIndex.html

Indexing an e-text it is very easy to over index. Generally an indexer is allotted a limited number of pages for an index, but in an e-text what's a few more bits. A bigger index does not mean a better index.

Happy Indexing

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:40 AM, davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk> wrote:

I'm about to start indexing a db5 book.
Reading up on the subject(Nancy C. Mulvany) and wondered if anyone has
been there and done that, got the tee-shirt and found the pitfalls in docbook? Any advice from those with lots of experience of using
db indexes please?



regards

--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk

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