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RE: Index (WAS What sayest me... on Worthless TC Degrees)
Subject:RE: Index (WAS What sayest me... on Worthless TC Degrees) From:Kay Robart <kay -dot- robart -at- integratedconcepts -dot- com> To:Tim Altom <taltom -at- simplywritten -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:31:22 -0600
It seems to me you are dealing with poorly written indexes. Instead of 12
listings
for the word text, I always enter a description for each entry, except for
the spread
of pages that is the main discussion. For example
text 2-13
color 3
creating 2
editing 2
font 3
formatting 3
in tables 5
and so on
Kay Robart
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Altom [SMTP:taltom -at- simplywritten -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 3:07 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Index (WAS What sayest me... on Worthless TC Degrees)
>
> Indexes are no bargain either, at times. In a book on FrameMaker, how many
> listings might there be for "text". One? Twelve? How many times have I
> looked in an index and found so many page numbers that I had to keep a
> thumb
> in the index while I looked?
>
>
