Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

175.0. "Missing index popup menus" by AITG::CARRASCO (Perfection is not success) Thu Aug 03 1989 16:40

	I'm building a reference manual with ONLINE.HANDBOOK, DOCUMENT V1.2a, 
and the 24-July-1989 baselevel of the online bookbuilding tools.  Most, but not
all, of the index entries with multiple page references are missing their popup
menu.  Clicking on these entries takes me to the first page reference, with no
way to get to the others.

	The problem seems to be related to the use of \BOLD in the <X> tags.  
If any of the page references are bold, there's no popup. If none of the page 
references is bold, the popup menu works fine.

	My source code is:

<X>(<symbol>(*POST-GC-MESSAGE*) variable\master)
...
<X>(<symbol>(MAKE-HASH-TABLE) function \master)
...
<X>(<symbol>(MAKE-HASH-TABLE) function \master)
...
<X>(<symbol>(*MODULE-DIRECTORY*) variable \master\bold \BEGIN)
...
<X>(<symbol>(*MODULE-DIRECTORY*) variable \master\bold \END)
...
<X>(<symbol>(*MODULE-DIRECTORY*) variable)
...
<X>(<symbol>(*POST-GC-MESSAGE*) variable \master\bold \BEGIN)
...
<X>(<symbol>(*POST-GC-MESSAGE*) variable \master\bold \END)


	In hardcopy, the index looks like this (asterisks around page no.s 
represent bold):

*MODULE-DIRECTORY* variable, *92*, 103
...
MAKE-HASH-TABLE function, 75, 78
...
*POST-GC-MESSAGE* variable, 57, *93* to *94*


	Online, clicking on MAKE-HASH-TABLE creates a popup menu.  Clicking on
*MODULE-DIRECTORY* opens the topic on page 92, with no way to see page 103.
Clicking on *POST-GC-MESSAGE* opens page 57, with no way to see the really 
important stuff on pages 93 - 94.

	I ran the book verify utility, and got "903 entries are bad in the 
INDEX."  *MODULE-DIRECTORY* variable, MAKE-HASH-TABLE function, and 
*POST-GC-MESSAGE* variable are all "too small."

	Any ideas?  Is this a bug?


Pilar.

I had the same problem with DOCUMENT V1.1. It appeared to go away when
we installed V1.2. 

    I tried your coding, Pilar, and there is, in fact, a problem with the
    way the converter handles ranges of pages for indexes. (It's the
    BEGIN\END keywords that are the problem, not the BOLD keyword.)
    
    We are looking into ways of fixing it.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mary