/ Tony Graham <> was heard to say:
| On Wed, Mar 12 2008 12:18:29 +0000, wrote:
| ...
|> Likewise, using pseudo-page numbers:
|>
|> F
|>
|> Foo, _1_, _2_
|>
|> is misleading because readers have been conditioned to think of those as
|> page numbers. A "1" under Foo should be the same place as a "1" under
|> Bar which simply won't be the case.
|
| FWIW, I think that scheme works okay in the CSS2 index at
| http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2/indexlist.html
Bleh. I think it looks ridiculous. But if the world disagrees with me,
I won't stand in its way. I probably will give the "number all index
terms sequentially" format a whirl when I have a chance.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <> | When dealing with the insane, the
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | best method is to pretend to be
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | sane.--Hermann Hesse
