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Re: indexterms
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: indexterms
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: 21 Jun 2000 15:38:07 -0400
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/ Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.COM> was heard to say:
| > From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
...
| > </indexterm>
| >
| > Would work, if you want the language to be tertiary.
|
| First of all, this won't work because you have two
| closing tags for each <primary> and <secondary>
| opening tag. But you knew that. ;^)
Er. Yeah. :-)
| And this answer is going to mislead latecomers to this discussion
| into thinking that you code <indexterm>s with the index
| letter as the primary element, which is not correct.
| The index generating machinery will normally generate
| the letter headings like "L". The original request was for
| an index that looks like this:
Egad, you're right. I didn't look closely. My bad. Don't do that! :-)
Be seeing you,
norm
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