Re: indexing and cross-referencing software

[Fred Brown <fred -dot- brown -at- allegrotechindexing -dot- com>]

John, for basic back-of-the-book indexing software, you may want to have a 
look at
wINDEX <http://www.abbington.com/holbert/windex.html>. Other dedicated 
indexing packages are

Macrex <http://www.macrex.com/>
CINDEX <http://www.indexres.com/>
SKY Index <http://www.sky-software.com/>

These packages are largely used in the book publishing industry to create 
back-of-the-book indexes. These indexes are usually created as text or RTF 
files and often have to meet specific formatting requirements.

If you are creating an embedded index, you can write and edit your index as 
a back-of-the-book index, sort it in page number order, and then embed the 
finished index into your document files. This approach gets around the 
problem of editing embedded index markers/fields while being able to use 
the timesaving features of dedicated indexing software. For example, you 
can double-post an index entry heading just by pressing a function key.

-- Fred Brown

At 09:29 PM 1/13/2003 +0100, you wrote: