Though, it's a lot easier for me to say "Yes= , amazing index is essential" when I'm not the one doing the work.=

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:43 PM, .alyn.p= ost. <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:

On M= on, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:39:57PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:31:37PM +0000, And Rosta wrote:
> > Robin Lee Powell, On 19/11/2012 20:26:
> > >On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:19:45PM +0000, And Rosta wrote: > > >>Robin Lee Powell, On 19/11/2012 18:52:
> > >>>Oh, and that the PDF needs to be something we can sen= d to a
> > >>>printer to make a book out of, so (in particular) cro= ss
> > >>>references need to be page number based (which is why= we can't
> > >>>just print the HTML, or anything converted from it; I= haven't
> > >>>found anything that produces page number xrefs from h= tml, much
> > >>>as I'd *LOVE* to solve the whole thing that way).=
> > >>
> > >>If the book's subsections are sufficiently short, wou= ldn't
> > >>cross-references to subsections, rather than to page numb= ers,
> > >>suffice? Many academic books do work thus.
> > >
> > >Well, you've got a copy of the red book, what do you thin= k? :)
> > >
> > >Can you show me such a book? =A0I've never seen that. =A0= Maybe
> > >something on Amazon where the "look in this book" i= s working?
> >
> > I haven't time to do that. I'd just suggest that since th= is page
> > number issue is an impediment to progress, you set it aside. The<= br> > > extra progress you could make by setting it aside outweighs any > > benefit of specific page refs.
>
> OK. =A0Can other people weigh in here? =A0If you were reading a
> technical book that had no page number based index, wouldn't that<= br> > shock you? =A0Wouldn't you be all like "what a pack of losers= "? =A0I
> think I would.
>
> I've been assuming that that's just totally unacceptable, but = I'm
> willing to be persuaded otherwise.
>

I feel roughly aligned with you. =A0If we publish a book descri= bing a
logical language and we can't be bothered to properly
cross-reference it I'd wonder about us more than I already do.

Honestly, A good index is worth doing by hand, if that's what it
takes.

mi'e .alyn.
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