docbook-apps

I'm looking at the emacs texinfo markup.

It has indexterms marked by 'class', e.g. index terms for variables,
functions, keys etc.

Is there such capability in docbook please?

I can use

<indexterm class='variable'>
<primary>track-eol</primary>
</indexterm>

But is there any mechanism to group index entries by some attribute
value? I don't think the zone attribute is applicabe?

regards

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Dave Pawson
XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ
http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Hi Dave,

On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, Dave Pawson wrote:
> I'm looking at the emacs texinfo markup.
>
> It has indexterms marked by 'class', e.g. index terms for variables,
> functions, keys etc.
>
> Is there such capability in docbook please?

If I understood you correctly, you want to group some index entries into
*separate* indices, or in other words, a "specialized index". Right?


> I can use
>
> <indexterm class='variable'>
> <primary>track-eol</primary>
> </indexterm>
>
> But is there any mechanism to group index entries by some attribute
> value? I don't think the zone attribute is applicabe?

Use the "type" attribute (»Specifies the target index for this term«). Try
this:

<indexterm type="variable">
<primary>track-eol</primary>
</indexterm>

Don't forget to insert the following line (generally at the end of your
document):

<index type="variable"/>

All index entries marked with "type" and its value "variable" is shown
under this index. For more information, see [1].

Hope this helps. :)


Bye,
Tom

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[1] http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/IndexSpecial.html


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Thomas Schraitle

Thomas Schraitle wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, Dave Pawson wrote:
>> I'm looking at the emacs texinfo markup.
>>
>> It has indexterms marked by 'class', e.g. index terms for variables,
>> functions, keys etc.
>>
>> Is there such capability in docbook please?
>
> If I understood you correctly, you want to group some index entries into
> *separate* indices, or in other words, a "specialized index". Right?

Yes, emacs has a number of seperate indices.


> Use the "type" attribute (»Specifies the target index for this term«). Try
> this:
>
> <indexterm type="variable">
> <primary>track-eol</primary>
> </indexterm>
>
> Don't forget to insert the following line (generally at the end of your
> document):
>
> <index type="variable"/>
>
> All index entries marked with "type" and its value "variable" is shown
> under this index. For more information, see [1].
(And thanks Bob ... again :-)
>
> Hope this helps. :)

Yes :-) Very much.

Thanks Thomas.

regards



--
Dave Pawson
XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ
http://www.dpawson.co.uk