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Re: indexterm in footnote
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I've seen no response to my query (below), which makes me think it's either
too newbee or too hard.
Can anyone give me an example of an indexterm in a footnote? Just an
example is all I need... Or else tell me that the tentative example I gave
below is the way it's supposed to be.
Mike Maxwell
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:00:37 -0400, maxwell <maxwell@...> wrote:
> In the description of footnotes in the DocBook 5 documentation
> http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/footnote.html
> under the section "Additional Constraints" it lists the following
> constraint:
> indexterm must not occur in the descendants of footnote
> I'm confused about how indexterms are supposed to be used in footnotes.
> Typically (I think) you have a para inside the footnote (at least that's
> how the example works on that same page). The implication of the above
> constraint would then be that any indexterm in a footnote has to be
outside
> the text of the footnote, I guess like this:
>
> <para>An annual percentage rate<footnote>
> <indexterm>...prime rate...</indexterm>
> <para>The prime rate, as published in the <citetitle>Wall Street
> Journal</citetitle> on the first business day of the month,
> plus 7.0%.
> </para>
> </footnote>
> ...
>
> Is that the intention? One perhaps undesirable result of this would be
> that if the footnote extends over two pages, the indexterm might point to
> the wrong page. Or is the expectation that in the output document, the
> index would say something like "prime rate: 23 footnote 7"?
>
> (Of course, one might say that footnotes should never extend over morethan
> one page. That's a rule we academics tend to break...)
>
> Mike Maxwell
>
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too newbee or too hard.
Can anyone give me an example of an indexterm in a footnote? Just an
example is all I need... Or else tell me that the tentative example I gave
below is the way it's supposed to be.
Mike Maxwell
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:00:37 -0400, maxwell <maxwell@...> wrote:
> In the description of footnotes in the DocBook 5 documentation
> http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/footnote.html
> under the section "Additional Constraints" it lists the following
> constraint:
> indexterm must not occur in the descendants of footnote
> I'm confused about how indexterms are supposed to be used in footnotes.
> Typically (I think) you have a para inside the footnote (at least that's
> how the example works on that same page). The implication of the above
> constraint would then be that any indexterm in a footnote has to be
outside
> the text of the footnote, I guess like this:
>
> <para>An annual percentage rate<footnote>
> <indexterm>...prime rate...</indexterm>
> <para>The prime rate, as published in the <citetitle>Wall Street
> Journal</citetitle> on the first business day of the month,
> plus 7.0%.
> </para>
> </footnote>
> ...
>
> Is that the intention? One perhaps undesirable result of this would be
> that if the footnote extends over two pages, the indexterm might point to
> the wrong page. Or is the expectation that in the output document, the
> index would say something like "prime rate: 23 footnote 7"?
>
> (Of course, one might say that footnotes should never extend over more
> one page. That's a rule we academics tend to break...)
>
> Mike Maxwell
>
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