Rick DeNatale wrote:
On 6/21/06, Hugh Prior <mediawiki(a)localpin.com>
wrote:
How about just putting [[Category:Index]] on all
your pages. You'd then
have a category which was basically an index to every page.
That doesn't seem to be what he's looking for. If I'm
understanding
correctly he want's the equivalent of marking index entries in a word
processor.
This is sort of a more static form of searching, but he also wants to
have the index entries point back to anchors within the article
instead of just to the article as a whole.
Yes, I'm afraid that's correct. The problem with Catgories is that they
are "coarse-grained"--it takes some effort to set up a category, so
people don't want to create to many of them, plus there is no such thing
as "subcategories", plus categories cannot point "within" a page,
which
is quite problematic for long pages.
As an example of just how nice and precise true indices can be, here is
just _part_ of a _single_ index entry in my copy of "SQL in a Nutshell":
---------
indexes
ascending
creating (PostgeSQL), 59
vs. descending (Oracle), 57
BITMAP (Oracle), 57
...and so on...
---------
Of course, whether or not such entries are useful depends on the
judgment of the person making them. But they certainly can be very useful.
Cheers,
Ken