Re: scoped macros

Joel de Guzman wrote:
> troy d. straszheim wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:14:18PM +0800, Joel de Guzman wrote:
> >
> > > I emphasized "might" because I am not quite sure. Like
> > > you, I too use lots of macros. Now, I place them at the
> > > top. Yes, you can generate an index from them, even make
> > > it automatic (special defs?). I find it cumbersome that
> > > I can't just include the macros once and have it applied
> > > globally.
> >
> >
> >
> > Special defs?  Apologies, I'm new to the docs list.  Currently I can
> > just talk all of those [def X [link X /X/]] macros, extract and
> > alphabetize the X's, put them in a section called "index", and I have
> > a kind of glossary/index (glindex?), a list of links to each X's
> > "primary" docs location.  But only in html, not in fo-generated pdf.
> > I'm curious as to how you like to generate your indexes.
>
>
> I was just rambling. I was imagining a special version of
> the def especially for index generation. If we were to use
> something like [idef X [link X /X/]], we can make the process
> that you have just outlined above automatically done by Qb.

Oh, BTW, here's the relevant link:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/07/14/dbndx.html

Seems easy enough to automate in Qbk.

Cheers,
--
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
http://spirit.sf.net



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