Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:17:49 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@osd.bsdi.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Indexing the Handbook Message-ID: <20010223161749.E35087@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <20010223144043.A46865@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:40:43PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102221744050.7245-100000@meow.osd.bsdi.com> <20010223144043.A46865@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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-On [20010223 11:30], Nik Clayton (nik@freebsd.org) wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:59:04PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
>
>My main concern is that in talking with a few people at various
>conventions it seems that getting a good index involves more than just
>sprinkling <indexterm> liberally around the document.
>
>I've got no idea how we select good terms to index, and again, the
>feedback I've had suggests that it's much more an art than a science.
>Which probably means we can't write rules and procedures for it :-)
You are so true in that aspect.
Indexing is Black Art.
>Do we also run the risk of having lots of different index terms, all
>subtly different? I don't know.
One of the reasons we need to use standard terms? :)
>What are the {Linux,Gnome,KDE} Documentation Projects doing about this,
>if anything?
I am unsure. I am checking the GDP at this moment and the others this
weekend and I'll report my findings.
>Is this something we could use entities for?
>
> <!ENTITY index.p.stack_frame
> "<indexterm><primary>stack frame</primary></indexterm>">
>
>and then write
>
> &index.p.stack_frame;
>
>As I say, I don't know.
I have to say I actually like that. The good part about the entity
solution is that it doesn't clutter the flow of the text (much). Hmmm,
I know vim pulls in autocompletion for C source files through the
#include'd files, let's see if I can do the same for SGML files. That
would at least ease writing for me/vim using doccers.
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