I'm the index obsessed doku-wichtl. The lack of indexing drives me crazy. Searching turns up every reference to a word, but doesn't focus on what is important. This is why we use XML for our docs so our PDFs can still have indexes.
I agree... search tools work, but then you have to wade through hundreds or even thousands of irrelevant hits to find the 2 that apply. That's where good indexing really shines.
I can only speak for myself and for LfL: If you create an indexterm in one of our DocBook sources, it will create an index both in online and print formats.
That works great when you're dealing with DocBook or other XML source material where you have the ability to add index tags where you think is important. I'm trying to experiment and implement other methods of collecting and producing books - basically trying new approaches to traditional doc methods. One I'm working on right now is Wiki. I know, Wiki is a collaborative tool, not a doc tool... but I'm experimenting and trying to look for other ways to encourage community involvement in documentation. Right now, the sources I work with are in a custom XML format that has a very high entry threshold. Wiki was requested as the lowest common denominator... so I'm working on that now. This means adding in new functionality etc to the Wiki to even have a hope of making it work... and I'm trying to cover all angles of traditional doc functionality in teh process. Thus the question about indexes. :-) I'll have a think about your comments here... maybe I'll have a brainwave today :-) One can hope... right? C. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org