Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] extracted index

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Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> On 24 May 2001 16:37:59 +0100, Mary Dwyer wrote:
> > Laszlo Kovacs wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 2. If an indexterm occurs more than once in the original document then will
> > > > result in a duplicate entry such as this eg.
> > > >  <primary>
> > > >     <title linkid="idx-a2" id="id10715">Panel</title>
> > > >     <title linkid="idx-a9" id="id10715">Panel</title>
> > > >
> > > >     - this is not ideal, but not sure how to get round this.
> > > We probably need to find some solution for this. Is this like there are
> > > actually two different Panel descriptions in the text? Because if yes
> > > then the document is probably incorrectly written.
> >
> > - yes, it's because there are two indexterm entries in the original document as
> > follows:
> > <indexterm id="idx-a2"><primary>Panel</primary></indexterm>
> > <indexterm id="idx-a9"><primary>Panel</primary></indexterm>
> >
> > granted, in a correctly written help document this shouldn't occur ...
> 
> That's clearly not correct.  Open up a book that you have which contains
> an index, and you'll see a very large number of index terms that show up
> on multiple pages.  Usually something like
> 
> Cats, Big.... 13, 25, 256
> 
> So this is not a error in the document, as far as I'm concerned.
>     Greg

Yeah, I was probably to tired. It is correct of course. It raises a
couple of issues though.

1. I wonder how we implement this in the GUI.
2. If we have a See Also: Panel, then to which Panel definition we jump.

Laszlo