Hi Dominik,
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:23:06 +0200
"Dominik Psenner" <dpsen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Dominik, if I understood it correctly, Lorenzo talks about the table
> >of contents, not the index. :)
>
> <OFFTOPIC>
>
> *laughingly*
>
> I never quite got the differences between TOC, indexes and
> bibliographies. To me they are all the same thing with different
> flavours. :-)
:-)
It's not that difficult:
* The TOC is a consecutive list of all the all titles, mainly of
chapters, sections, and appendices (sometimes also from figures,
tables, etc.) The titles appear in their respective order. In a book,
a TOC is usually printed at the _beginning_.
* The index is an alphabetically sorted list of terms. If you want to
know where to find something about customization layers, you would
usually search the index. In a book, the index can be found at the
_end_.
* A bibliography is a list of books, reports, magazines, Web pages etc.
for further reading/information. For example, if you write a book
about DocBook you would certainly refer (or "cite") the "DocBook
Definitive Guide" from Norman. An item in the bibliography contains
the author, the ISBN number, edition, publisher, etc. to make it easy
to find it.
In a book, a bibliography is usually shown at the end.
Look into a classical book and you will find these parts.
Hope that helps. :)
--
Gruß/Regards,
Thomas Schraitle
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