Re: Learning to index my own project

["Stuart Burnfield" <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>]

Hi Jennifer. I don't know RoboHelp but if the Smart Index
feature is what it sounds like, you're right not to trust it.
The only "smart indexes" are those created by smart people 
who know what they're doing. Anything automatically generated
from headings and key phrases is at best a concordance, at 
worst a "dumb index" or "no index" or "frustrating and 
annoying index".

The Nancy Mulvany book is really good, though it's probably 
more aimed at someone planning a career in traditional 
back-of-book indexing.

"Read me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry"
(http://www.sun.com/books/catalog/sun_tech_pub.xml)
has a good longish chapter on indexing.

Stuart

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