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

[Claus Gerhardt]

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.

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

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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