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Power
Cable/s
Button, On/Off
Supplies
Connector, Supply
and
Button, On/Off, Power (or On/Off Button, Power...might even need three
entries for this one)
Cable/s, Power
Connector, Power Supply
Supplies, Power, accepted by
Might vary a bit, depending on the level of knowledge of you expected readers.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
> Currently, these items appear in the index of my manual:
>
> power cable for Thingie 5000 2-4
> power On/Off button, location of 2-7
> power supplies accepted by Thingie 5000 2-8
> power supply connector, location of, 2-9
>
> I think that these four entries are so different that there is no logically acceptable way to combine them, even though they all begin with the same word.
> For example, "power cable" is a two-word, distinct noun, while "power supply connector" is a distinct, three-word noun. I don't think those two can acceptably be combined as
>
> power
> cable for bell, 2-4
> supply connector, location of
>
> I think all four have to stand alone. Do you agree, or would you handle them differently?
>
> --Nancy
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