[OS X TeX] Re: [OS X TeX] Re: [OS X TeX] hyperref strikes … showidx

[Alain Schremmer]

Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> Alain,
>
> I think you got it a bit mixed up. Showidx is helpful, when the  
> author is editing his book, e.g. deciding, if he has to define an  
> index entry or not, because its already defined.
>
> A reader uses the index, if he wants to find a specific reference by  
> looking it up in the index. Hyperef can then be very helpful, since  
> it will offer a link from the particular entry in the index to its  
> actual occurrence in text. I like this behaviour very much.

This is certainly in accord with Companion 2ed and equally certainly not 
the way I am using Showidx and this for the reason I  gave earlier, 
namely that the students I am writing for (who include women ;-) ) don't 
have instant recall and, for quite a while, need constantly to go back 
to the definition before the proper use of the term finally sinks in. 
Showidx helps them do that.

I was just puzzled by the conflict.

> Thus my recommendation would be to use hyperref and not showidx.

Exactly how does hyperref work in … a paperback? :-)

Best regards
--schremmer

> Claus
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2006, at 5:13, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> I like showidx because it helps the students locate indexed terms  
>> while they are getting used to them. Having to look up the index  
>> when you are only half a dozen pages or so beyond is a bit of an  
>> burden.
>>
>> In any case, I played around today with hyperref, just to see, and  I 
>> suddenly got double vision: the indexed terms were not shown in  the 
>> margin anymore but right after where they were defined as in
>>
>>    The denominatordenominator is …
>>
>> It doesn't bother me since I am not trying to make an e-book and I  
>> just got rid of hyperref but I was wondering whether this was a  
>> known bug.
>>
>> Regards
>> --schremmer
>>
>>
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