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Subject:RE: Indexing style refs From:technical -at- theverbalist -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:59:39 -0600
In a modern world, where creating an index is just a clickety-boo away,
what is the advantage of having "Instrument container, see toolbox"
references, other than teaching readers that "Instrument container" and
"toolbox" are synonyms?
True, they've learned a new synonym, but then they have to look up the
information twice--is that good?
