Re: Page ranges in indexes: Do you use them?

["Jan C. Wright" <jancw -at- wrightinformation -dot- com>]

There aren't very many ways to make page ranging index entries go faster in 
Frame, other than splitting your entries in IxGen to make sure you have all 
the begin and end entries tagged and matched. It is indeed tedious, and no 
way around it. It's pretty tedious in Word, too. I think it does make a 
difference, though - if you don't use them, readers no longer know where 
the "main" discussion is, or the most in-depth discussion.

The only time I don't use them is when a manual will be single-sourced into 
online help -- then I design the index to work in help and abandon page 
ranging.  But with single-sourcing, not much you can do -- using page 
ranges would mean topics broken out from a larger section may not pick up 
the indexing they need to be found online. The first topic might hold the 
indexing, and subsequent smaller break-outs might not. Unless 
cross-referencing happens within the topic to lead to the rest, they become 
invisible to the index. So the indexing is done differently, and no ranging 
is done.

jan

At 11:27 AM 6/12/2002 -0700, Salan Sinclair wrote: