Yep, That's the way I'm used to doing it in Latex, though as long as the containing paragraph is not too long, the current way seems fine.
D. On Aug 18, 3:05 pm, Kevin Horn <kevin.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:42 PM, David <dwarnol...@suddenlink.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Not sure about indexing. In Latex, I'm used to inserting and index > > reference in the body of a paragraph next to the word I am indexing > > (maybe I should not have been doing it that way over the years), but > > with Sphinx it seems that philosophy is to insert the index in front > > of the paragraph containing the word you want to appear in the index. > > For example, > > > .. index:: good men > > > Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their > > countrymen. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of > > their countrymen. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid > > of their countrymen. Now is the time for all good men to come to the > > aid of their countrymen. Now is the time for all good men to come to > > the aid of their countrymen. Now is the time for all good men to come > > to the aid of their countrymen. Now is the time for all good men to > > come to the aid of their countrymen. Now is the time for all good men > > to come to the aid of their countrymen. > > > Do I have this idea right? > > > David > > For the moment I think this is the right way to do it, but I recall seeing a > > ticket for adding an index role (as opposed to a directive), which I presume > (guessing) would allow you to do something like: > > This :index:`term` is in the index. > > I don't think this has been implemented yet, though. > > Kevin Horn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to sphinx-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sphinx-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev?hl=en.
