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------- Additional comments from ramon...@openoffice.org Mon Jun 28 11:19:15
+0000 2010 -------
After 15 years of being a technical writer I take exception to being taught
wrong, doing the wrong thing, wanting the wrong thing, or proposing the wrong
thing. What I expect is what bazillion other word processors do as well and it
is common practice across printed material. Aside from that, it is very useful
for the reader.
That said, I do like the proposal to use the pipe character to separate main
from sub entries and indicate the desired processing rule. But, I disagree with
the proposed process. Giovannibattista proposes this:
"Apple Fruit ............ 4
Peach ............ 2
Pear ............. 2
Orange ........... 5
1) First proposal:
The text box of "insert index entries" should be able to accept a special
character (e.g. "|") to indicate which part of the index entry should be
"obscured"(only when the first part is identical and only from the second).
[Fruit|Apple] [Fruit|Peach] [Fruit|Pear] [Fruit|Orange]
get an index above"
Such index entries should produce this:
Fruit Apple ............ 4
Orange ........... 5
Peach ............ 2
Pear ............. 2
The common index key word is "Fruit" and it is also named first, which I would
expect to be the indicator for main entry. The key word after the separator is
then used for sub-entries that are to be sorted in alphanumerical ascending
order, or in the same order as the main entries of an index.
As I pointed out before, this is absolutely common practice. The examples from
giovannibattista show clearly that this is found in print regularly.
There may be writing guides that explicitly prohibit the writer from using such
useful things. In that case the writer can decide not to use this functionality.
The word processor application is the wrong tool to enforce any writing styles.
It should rather enable writers to make use of any style deemed suitable.
I second the proposal of using a separator such as the pipe character to enter
index key words for main and sub-entries to produce the expected index
formatting.
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