[docbook-apps] Request For Clarification: Indexterm processing in auto-index generation.

2008-03-11 Thread Stefan Seefeld
Hi there, earlier this year I asked about the expected and 'correct' behavior for index generation in HTML and pdf, as I found (find) the current behavior surprising. Bob Stayton pointed me to this explanation: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/IndexOutput.html "Instead of page numbers (wh

Re: [docbook-apps] Request For Clarification: Indexterm processing in auto-index generation.

2008-03-11 Thread Bob Stayton
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Re: [docbook-apps] Request For Clarification: Indexterm processing in auto-index generation.

2008-03-11 Thread Jirka Kosek
Stefan Seefeld wrote: I still find these two texts to contradict each other. I do find the suggested processing expectation from TDG much more intuitive than the one explained in "DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide". At least, I'd appreciate if those two texts could be made to agree on what the

Re: [docbook-apps] Request For Clarification: Indexterm processing in auto-index generation.

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Pawson
Jirka Kosek wrote: There is no contradiction. Your document will be read by humans. In many cases (I'm not saying in all, so might be your indexing needs are really different) human can't start reading in the middle of paragraph after he/she followed link from index. Instead you usually need t