Re: [docbook-apps] Indexing software and DocBook

[Richard Hamilton <hamilton@xmlpress.net>]

Dave,

Thanks very much. It will be interesting to see how SkyIndex works.

After doing some investigation on Cindex, it's clear that it's a pretty cool program, but it doesn't seem to be set up to work with markup that embeds codes, so there are extra steps involved in making it work with DocBook (Caveat: I did not do an extensive investigation, but I did get the demo version of the software and exchanged email with two people who have used the product.

Thanks,
Richard
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On Aug 12, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Xmplar wrote:

> Richard,
> I have an indexer working on an ebook now. He's using embedded indexing (as per Bob's book) with oXygen, but apparently prefers to use SkyIndex for the indexing, then transfer the entries into XML chunks.
> I'll let you know in a few weeks exactly how he handled the job.
> Dave
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> On 10-08-12 5:11 AM, Richard Hamilton wrote:
>> Has anyone worked with indexing software (like Cindex) and DocBook? It looks like Cindex will operate on XML instances and even export XML, but I don't know how practical it might be to use it for an indexing project in DocBook.
>> 
>> If anyone has experience doing that and could spend a few minutes off-line talking/emailing about it, please let me know.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dick Hamilton
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