[ruby-talk:11372] Re: Programming Ruby is now online

No-one seems to want to talk about what I suggested.  Fortunately, I
feel like talking to myself :-) ...

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:42:13 GMT, [e-mail] (Harry
Ohlsen) wrote:

>However, can I make a suggestion?  I think one of the most useful
>parts of the book is missing.  There's no index in the HTML ... either
>that, ot I'm going blind :-).
>
>I realise that this is presumably generated by LaTeX and would refer
>to the page numbers in the printable version.  However, I assume one
>could do something like take the list of words mentioned in the index,
>do a search across the HTML files and replace the page numbers with
>equivalent hyper-links?

Of course, I just realised that it's presumably even easier than that,
since I assume the LaTeX must have tags in it to specify what to
index.

So, it should be relatively easy ... this is the phrase I use when
someone else is the most obvious person to do something :-) ... to
scan those at the same time the rest of the LaTeX is processed to
generate the HTML.

I'd be happy to take a first pass at it, given a couple of the LaTeX
files and the index LaTeX generates.

If not, I suppose I'll just write something that tries to pick logical
items from the HTML and generate an index for myself.