Syd Bauman wrote:

> Some limitations of the brief sample Jon provided and IIRC of DocBook
> (but lord knows, I am no DocBook expert):
>
> * Only provides for 1 index.
> * Definitionally limited number of subcatagories (this might be a
> good thing, though :-)
> * Cannot declare the language of the index term as being different
> from the language of the content.
>
> TEI indexing takes care of all three of these concerns. See
> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/CO.html#CONOIX.

Thanks! From my initial study, it appears TEI is a little more powerful
at representing embedded indexing information than is DocBook.

In my chats with a couple indexers, the embedded index markup should
also handle cross-referencing, such as "see" and "see also" types of
information.

Jon Noring