Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] extracted index

[Mary D. <Mar...@Su...>]

Hi

From the stylesheet point of view, if we get the main entry for duplicate i=
ndex=20
terms correct, the see/seealso references will follow.

So, to recap, here's an example of the problem:
- there are multiple sections in the document indexed by the term "Panel". =
These=20
sections have the identifiers idx-a2, idx-a5, idx-a9. There are also a numb=
er of=20
see/seealso references to "Panel"
- under the current stylesheet structure this would result in the index ent=
ry
  <primary>
    <title linkid=3D"idx-a2" indexid=3D"id10715">Panel</title>
    <title linkid=3D"idx-a5" indexid=3D"id10715">Panel</title>
    <title linkid=3D"idx-a9" indexid=3D"id10715">Panel</title>
   =20
- the following solution appealed, but unfortunately ID and IDREFs as eleme=
nt=20
content is illegal :-)
<primary>
    <title>Panel</title>
    <linkid>idx-a2</linkid>
    <linkid>idx-a5</linkid>
    <linkid>idx-a9</linkid>
    <indexid>id10715</indexid>
   =20
Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way of presenting multiple=20
occurences of an indexterm??

cheers
Mary

> Subject: Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] extracted index
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> On 24 May 2001 18:25:06 +0100, L=E1szl=F3 Kov=E1cs wrote:
> > Gregory Leblanc wrote:
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> > > 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 docume=
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then will
> > > > > > result in a duplicate entry such as this eg.
> > > > > >  <primary>
> > > > > >     <title linkid=3D"idx-a2" id=3D"id10715">Panel</title>
> > > > > >     <title linkid=3D"idx-a9" id=3D"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 the=
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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=
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document as
> > > > follows:
> > > > <indexterm id=3D"idx-a2"><primary>Panel</primary></indexterm>
> > > > <indexterm id=3D"idx-a9"><primary>Panel</primary></indexterm>
> > > >
> > > > granted, in a correctly written help document this shouldn't occur =
...
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> > > That's clearly not correct.  Open up a book that you have which conta=
ins
> > > an index, and you'll see a very large number of index terms that show=
 up
> > > on multiple pages.  Usually something like
> > >=20
> > > Cats, Big.... 13, 25, 256
> > >=20
> > > So this is not a error in the document, as far as I'm concerned.
> > >     Greg
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> > Yeah, I was probably to tired. It is correct of course. It raises a
> > couple of issues though.
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> > 1. I wonder how we implement this in the GUI.
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> Dunno, I'm not a GUI designer.  :-)
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> > 2. If we have a See Also: Panel, then to which Panel definition we jump=
.
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> Ah, that one is easy (erm, I think it's easy)!  You don't like to an
> entry in the document, you link the the Index entry for the Panel.
> Didn't GNOME recruit some indexing professionals to do some volunteer
> work?  Can we sucker^W volunteer them for this discussion?
>     Greg
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> Gently down the feed
> Merrily, merrily troll along
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