Re: [Axiom-developer] Index entries for "eq?"

[daly]

Since the xhtml is all static text it should be a simple
task to just read it once and eliminate any duplicates.
Just make the changes you want, send me a diff-Naur file,
and I'll apply them.
 
The author is Arthur Ralfs.

Tim Daly

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 16:38 -0400, Eugene Surowitz wrote:
> OK: so we have an unmaintained, probably machine generated,
> and apparently incomplete but otherwise useful piece of the documentation.
> 
> Any memory of who or how it was generated generated?
> 
> I had to create something similar for another project and
> had a degassing step in there which appears to have omitted here.
> If memory serves correctly degassing can actually be done with
> simple unix commands only.
> 
> But that would bypass the incompleteness issue.
> 
> The C++ thing that I have in specialized form might be
> generalized to create a component for Axiom that would
> work from the entire documentation source since the pamphlets
> are really now TeX/Latex which was its targeted input.
> 
> Eugene J. Surowitz
> 
> On 5/15/2011 5:43 PM, daly wrote:
> > The file book-index.xhtml was a contributed document.
> > Axiom does nothing but copy it at build time.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 13:49 -0400, Eugene Surowitz wrote:
> >> Tim:
> >>
> >> The file "book-index.xhtml" contains 3 entries for "eq?",
> >> all for "Section 9.18 EqTable".
> >> There are in fact three text statements in in that section
> >> containing the string "eg?".
> >>
> >> I generally believe that an index would contain only one entry
> >> per page for any given word.  Does the index generation mechanism
> >> for Axiom inteneded to function that way?
> >> Or does it tolerate duplicates per page/section?
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >