RE: Learning to index my own project

[Andrew Warren <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>]

Jennifer C. Bennett wrote:

> I am a technical writer working in the software industry.  I've been
> working on a large RoboHelp 7 Web Help project.  I really need to
> create an index for this project - but I want to go about it the right
> way, and I'm not sure where to begin.
> ....
> Any other suggestions?

Jennifer:

Back in 2000 or so, Peter Schorer wrote a small book called "How to Create Zero-Search-Time Computer Documentation" (ISBN 1573980110); a PDF of the book can be downloaded at no cost from http://www.zsthelp.com/book/ .

He has a strong opinion on the right way to do indexing; you may find it interesting.

-Andrew

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