23 Dec
2008
23 Dec
'08
11:52 p.m.
>> of pointers is valuable.)
> A good professional indexer works with synonyms and subject, not just
> keywords. A keyword only index is basically a concordance.
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, der Mouse wrote:
Good point; thanks for catching that - I suspect
I've seen too many
concordance-style indices and too few of the other sort. But even a
good index can be done perfectly well in plain text; the only part
that's at all difficult is what to use as the pointer to the referenced
text, and that (a) is an issue only if the text is not broken into
numbered pages and (b) is not hard to solve even if the text is not
paginated (it could use line numbers, section numbers, even search
patterns, etc).
I wish that I knew a good way in HTML to express offsets from beginning
of a document.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com