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Subject: Re: [docbook] RFE 714764 - 'typed' indexes
Dave Pawson wrote: > At 12:49 23/05/2003 +0200, Tobias Reif wrote: > >> I just thought that it would be much more flexible to not insert index >> term markup in the document, at all (at most place a simple reference >> to each index document). If I get a DocBook document and don't like >> the indexing, I have to work my way through the whole document and >> discard the previous work, > > That's why indexers are paid good money to do their job. I can't see what that has to do with discarding the previous indexing markup. Indexers would still be paid good money, even if they don't have to discard previous indexer's work, AFAICS. >> or I have to produce a new version of the DocBook document (I don't >> have much experience with DB indexing, so I might be wrong). So I >> simply like the general possibility of separating the document from >> it's indexes; I didn't yet think about technical details. > > Seeing my book indexed by a professional, I began to appreciate the work > that went > into doing it. It is, essentially, an additional layer of markup that > goes in on top of > the actual content. I questioned neither of those. Keeping multiple indexing documents shouldn't affect any of the aspects you mentioned. Tobi -- http://www.pinkjuice.com/
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