Re: Page ranges in indexes: Do you use them?

["Jo Baer" <jbaer -at- tcfbank -dot- com>]

Salan Sinclair wrote: (in brief)

> Do you use page ranges in indexes?

We use some page ranges in our indexes, but not a lot. If the discussion of the topic starts on one page and continues
uninterrupted, we don't use a page range. If the topic covers several pages, and is the main focus of those pages, but there
are other topics interspersed, we use a page range. We use a bold page number to denote a main entry for a topic.

The reasoning behind this is that if a topic is treated continuously, the reader will be able to detect that. If a number of
pages focus on one topic, but with others interspersed, the reader may well think that the discussion has ended as soon as
another topic is introduced.

Jo
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