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RE: [dita] A richer indexterm

From: JoAnn Hackos
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:53:00 -0000

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Subject: RE: [dita] A richer indexterm




From: "JoAnn Hackos" <[email protected]>
To: "Christopher Wong" <[email protected]>,<[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:53:33 -0600









I definitely would like a richer accommodation for index 
terms. We use "see" and "see also" items and often use three levels of index 
terms. IBM used to have a very fine internal document on indexing which DITA 
ought to support. 
 
JoAnn




From: Christopher Wong 
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:28 
PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [dita] A richer 
indexterm


Do DITA adopters see a need for richer indexterm content? It only 
allows plain text at the moment. But typical book indexes are littered with "see 
XXX" and "see also XYZ" entries that should be treated specially. I pulled up an 
IBM manual online ("IBM WebSphere V4.0 Advanced Edition Handbook", by IBM, March 
13, 2002) on Safari, and its index page has plenty of HTML-ized index entries, 
such as:


Packaging [See Application 
  packaging]
Password encoding 2nd
Performance 2nd [See also Workload management]
PKI [See Public-key infrastructure]
Plug-in [See Web server plug-in]
plugin-cfg.xml 
  2nd
     Default location
POP3 [See Post Office Protocol]
Post Office Protocol
Problem 
  determination [See Troubleshooting]
Public-key 
  infrastructure
PVCS
How do real-world adopters do this? 
Thanks.

Chris
















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