RE: Indexing- Best Practices

["Spreadbury, David C." <David -dot- Spreadbury -at- marconi -dot- com>]

If you are using FrameMaker, you need to subscribe to frameusers as well (go
to www.frameusers.com). Also, you post is very timely. A very valuable
poster to FrameUsers posted, just this morning, a paper on FrameMaker
Building Blocks, titled Index Markers. You can find this paper also at
www.microtype.com, hosted by Shlomo Perets. This is another very good source
for FrameMaker and/or Acrobat tips and hints.

You might want to search the web for general indexing guidelines. There are
several good sites;

American Society of Indexers (http://www.asindexing.org/site/index.html)
Society of Indexers (UK) (http://www.socind.demon.co.uk/)
The Indexing & Abstracting Society of Canada
(http://www.indexingsociety.ca/)
Allegro Technical Indexing (http://www.allegrotechindexing.com/index.htm)

There are a lot of good books that can lead provide you with some good
indexing guidelines. Search through Amazon or Barnes & Noble. One that I
have, and particularly like, is Technical Writing 101: A Real-World Guide to
Planning and Writing Technical Documentation, from Scriptorium Press. I
believe it is out of print, at least the edition I have, but you might be
able to find a used one (used books have the same words as new books).

-----Original Message-----
From: Nilesh Parmar [mailto:nilesh -at- pramati -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 7:45 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Indexing- Best Practices



Hi,
    I've just subscribed to this list and found it very active. I'm learning
loads of things. Thanks a lot!!. I would like your valuable suggestions
regarding best practices that one should have in mind while indexing a
document.

I have a manual that needs to be indexed. I haven't indexed a document
before. I'm using Frame Maker 7.0 and know how to index words but would like
inputs as to what to look for while indexing a word. How do i index related
words togather. What are good practices, what are things we should avoid
etc.,

Thanks in advance,
Nilesh

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