Re: indexing

[Dan Mueth <dan eazel com>]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 jfleck inkstain net wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Laszlo Kovacs wrote:
> 
> > > If we add an index to a doc manually, as in suggestion 1, then it will
> > > be useful even without special "index display" - it will just show as
> > > one of the sections of your document (usually the last one). If you
> > > are trying to find info about some topic, you just look at this
> > > section, find (manually) the topic you need, and click on the provided
> > > link. Much as with printed books.
> > Oh, ok. This sounds good. Is gnome-db2html2 able to handle these tags?
> >  
> 
> It does not now. I'm looking into what would be required to add the
> necessary support.

Thanks John. This is something we would eventually like to have in
gnome-db2html2, even if we do use ScrollKeeper to do fancy magic like
providing a search feature that searches the index of many documents at
once.

If we really want to have a central index, we might imagine faking
together one (as Sasha suggested), but make it a single document which
acts like an index to the other documents which are core to GNOME.  We
could call it "The GNOME Index" and then put links like:
  cd player -> gtcd
  CPU: monitoring load -> multiload applet
       identifying -> Nautilus hardware view
  Themes: changing -> Control center: Appearance

or whatever.  This is really what the user wants. Of course this would be
a lot of work to do well, especially to do a good job.  It would fit
nicely into gnome-user-docs.

Dan