Index "preview"
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 7:20 am
I'm converting a set of documentation topics from Markdown to DITA. I'm using Oxygen XML Author 22.1.
Two of the output formats for this DITA source are:
Rather than waiting to see the index until I run a transformation scenario, I would like a pane (view) while editing in Oxygen that shows a live, dynamic "preview" of an index generated from the map currently open in the DITA Maps Manager. This would help me to build consistent hierarchies of index terms across topics as I add the <indexterm> elements.
Two of the output formats for this DITA source are:
- PDF with a "back-of-book" index
- HTML with an Index pane
Rather than waiting to see the index until I run a transformation scenario, I would like a pane (view) while editing in Oxygen that shows a live, dynamic "preview" of an index generated from the map currently open in the DITA Maps Manager. This would help me to build consistent hierarchies of index terms across topics as I add the <indexterm> elements.