FW: [dita] Index question

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JoAnn Hackos <>
Date
2006-03-15T16:12:59+00:00
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FW: [dita] Index question
It would also be helpful 
to put an <indexterm> in a short description - you can't do that 
either.

Jen

 

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From: JoAnn Hackos 
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Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 
2006 9:13 AM
To: Michael Priestley; Chris Wong
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Subject: [dita] Index 
question

Micheal and Chris,

 

My staff just told me that they cannot add 
an <indexterm> tag to a title. In most indexing best practices, you do 
include index tags at the title level to point a reader to an entire topic. Is 
there a reason that an <indexterm> tag is not allowed in a topic title? 
Can we include it there? Why is <indexterm> not a universal attribute? It 
would also be useful to place an index tag at the beginning of a property list 
or table.

 

JoAnn 

JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD 
President 
Comtech Services, 
Inc. 
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