From mike@brickfieldspark.org Wed Dec 24 04:18:29 2008 From: mike@brickfieldspark.org To: test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org Subject: [personal] Re: PDF datasheets (was Re: Sources for 8b TTL keyboards(Keytronics)) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:18:29 +0000 Message-ID: <002f01c965b0$f9a1a6a0$961ca8c0@mss.local> In-Reply-To: <20081223234928.B67341@shell.lmi.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7303508937755477061==" --===============7303508937755477061== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I wish that I knew a good way in HTML to express offsets from beginning > of a document. It is a variant of the , for a position in that page it would be , where 'position' is a tag in that page . Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Cisin" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:52 AM Subject: [personal] Re: PDF datasheets (was Re: Sources for 8b TTL keyboards(Keytronics)) >> >> of pointers is valuable.) >> > A good professional indexer works with synonyms and subject, not just >> > keywords. A keyword only index is basically a concordance. > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, der Mouse wrote: >> Good point; thanks for catching that - I suspect I've seen too many >> concordance-style indices and too few of the other sort. But even a >> good index can be done perfectly well in plain text; the only part >> that's at all difficult is what to use as the pointer to the referenced >> text, and that (a) is an issue only if the text is not broken into >> numbered pages and (b) is not hard to solve even if the text is not >> paginated (it could use line numbers, section numbers, even search >> patterns, etc). > > I wish that I knew a good way in HTML to express offsets from beginning > of a document. > > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com > > > --===============7303508937755477061==--