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RE: mkdiff + index building


From the response so far, it looks like most of us still use a text editor
and our eyes to markup a document from a predefined list of words.  You may
have to hack a tool of your own.

> -----Original Message-----
> Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
> 
> > ben writes:
> >
> > > Beside this, I've another question: I would like to make an index
> > > automatically from a predefined list of words, without 
> adding by hand
> > > the <indexterm> tags everywhere in the file. I know it's 
> not hard to
> > > hack something to do this, but maybe a tool already exists, so...
> >
> > I don't think this can work, because the index entries 
> wouldn't have an
> > anchor to point to.  At least you would be in for some 
> non-trivial work to
> > make that happen.
> 
> I thought that was the purpose of indexterm: to say where the 
> indexentries
> should point to in the doc. Am I wrong?
> 
> "IndexTerms identify text that is to be placed in the index. 
> In the simplest
> case, the placement of the IndexTerm in the document 
> identifies the location
> of the term in the text. In other words, the IndexTerm is 
> placed in the flow
> of the document at the point where the IndexEntry in the 
> Index should point"
> says TDG.
> 
> Besides, I translate to latex so links are simply made by 
> latex/makeindex.
> 
> BG
> 
> 
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