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Subject:Re: Testing an index From:"Wanda Phillips" <wanda -dot- jane -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Marguerite Krupp (mkrupp)" <mkrupp -at- cisco -dot- com> Date:Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:18:57 -0800
How do the see and see also entries work out in an online index? I
think we were having trouble with them, though I cannot recall the
details.
We are not, currently, using alternate terminology to point to our
content (ultrasound equipment), though I used to it with the data
management software I used to document. Part of our issue has to do
with the time required to build the word lists. Maybe once we get a
handle on DITA and if it produces even a tenth the efficiencies we're
promised... well, maybe then we can start expanding our index in that
direction.
Wanda
On 2/25/08, Marguerite Krupp (mkrupp) <mkrupp -at- cisco -dot- com> wrote:
> Perhaps I'm flogging a dead horse here, but I think that "See" and "See
> also" references are amont the things that help differentiate a real
> index from a full-text search.
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