23 Dec
2008
23 Dec
'08
1:14 p.m.
I've seen
usable indexes in plaintext documents - and rarely want
them anyway because of the ease of searching. (Indexes are mostly a
holdover from paper, where searching is nontrivial and thus a list
of pointers is valuable.)
A good professional indexer works with synonyms and
subject, not just
keywords. A keyword only index is basically a concordance.