23 Dec
2008
23 Dec
'08
12:40 p.m.
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, der Mouse wrote:
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.