On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 08:19:45AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 04:29:25PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > > > This is another round of *never-ending* indexing updates. > > Maintaining indexes is non-trivial, no two ways about it! > > So special thanks for this series! > > At some point, for the index entries with lots of references, it may > be necesary to flag the most important references. I sometimes see > such entries italicized or marked with "ff", though I freely confess > that I have no idea what the rationale for "ff" might be. And I did find this. The "ff" stands for "folios following", where "folio" is used in the sense of "page". So "368 ff" means "page 368 and some number of subsequent pages." I have spent most of my life fooled into thinking that "ff" indicated the most significant page for a given index item. But there is some connection, at least assuming that a longer discussion of a given term is a more significant discussion of that term. ;-) Thanx, Paul
