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Re: [dita] Indexterm: page ranges

  • 1.  Re: [dita] Indexterm: page ranges

    Posted 10-04-2005 15:01
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    Subject: Re: [dita] Indexterm: page ranges


    Erik Hennum wrote:
    
    > An index term doesn't indicate the presence of a word or two at a location
    > but, instead, a thought expressed by a complete phrase, paragraph, list,
    > section, topic, or group of topics.
    
    I don't think I can accept this statement in this absolute a form: for 
    many authors index terms are precisely a marker indicating the 
    occurrence of a specific word or phrase at a specific location.
    
    That is, while sometimes index entries are exactly as Erik states (and 
    this is why they would normally generate a page range in the rendered 
    index) it is not an exclusive, or necessarly even typical, use of index 
    markers.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Eliot
    
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