> How do you make indices? I need to make one in a project I am
> working on. Its in Word now but I plan to port it to Apple's
> "Pages" which seems nicer than Word.
Well, it is something you have to learn, just like math or science. Probably
the hardest part is term selection which basically means you need to learn
how to properly determine what is likely to be looked up and in what ways it
will be looked up. For example you might:
commands
new
open
And...
new command
open command
You might also have
creating
songs
opening
songs
I'm not an indexer myself, but have learned enough through my beta testers
and attending American Society of Indexers conferences and reading Nancy
Mulvany's book called "Indexing Books" that I at least have a reasonable
understanding of what is appropriate and what is not. I still don't do my
own indexes, I hire a professional for that. Anyway, there are also sorting
rules to understand, when it is appropriate to have a cross-reference and
the difference between a "see" and "see also" cross-references. A good
example of one of the things that makes the Logic index bad is that if you
look up punch-in, it will send you to a Glossary entry rather than pertinent
information in the manual. Well... for starters, the Glossary is already in
alphabetical order, the index should not include glossary items at all.
Heck, if I'm looking up Punch-in, I probably already know what it means, I
just want to find out how to do it. However, it *should* include information
in the reference manual that applies.
If your project really needs a good index, you should hire an indexer.
Otherwise, you could buy Nancy's book or the Chicago Manual of Style and
read up on it.
Kamm
