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Well, to briefly play devil's advocate (I am
downstream on this, my advice was the same as yours
and so I was given this response), I am told that
indexers dislike embedded indexing because if a
paragraph spans two pages, you don't get a page range
in your index.
That's it.
My response was that unless a paragraph spanned more
than two pages (ours are shorter, 3+ paragraphs per
page), I'd prefer to start reading at the beginning of
the paragraph anyway and a page range in the index did
me no good. But that's just me. Besides, even if it is
more usable to give a range for a paragraph that spans
a page break, I'd yield that for the function provided
by embedded markers.
Cheers,
Sean
--- Jan Henning <henning -at- r-l -dot- de> wrote:
>
> > By not providing an embedded index, the idea is
> that
> > the indexers will provide only the finished,
> manual
> > index in Word or something.
>
<snip>
> Whether other people move away from embedded
> indexing (my impression is
> that the opposite is true) seems immaterial: You'll
> want to do what is
> best for you. Unless the indexers can give you clear
> advantages of not
> imbedding index markers, I'd demand that they embed
> them. (If they can
> give you such advantages, I'd love to hear them,
> since I cannot imagine
> what they might be.)
>
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