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Subject:Indexing Online Documentation From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 1 Mar 1995 23:04:32 -0800
I'm taking an *excellent* course at San Jose State on online
documentation. I'm learning so much! Anyway, tonight we were talking
about indexes for online help. I looked at the indexes for several
programs today, and they uniformly sucked.
Are professional indexers ever hired to index online help? And if not,
why not, if they are hired to index the book?
