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Subject:Re: I'm gonna be an Indexer!! From:Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 9 Jul 1999 15:31:33 -0500
At 01:08 PM 7/9/99 -0700, John Posada wrote:
>Hi, people...
>
>I'm going to have to create an Index for my user
>manual, starting pretty soon. I've never done a
>"real" index. (am I gonna have fun, or what??)
>
>Three questions:
>
>2) The manual will evenualy be converted to Word. I'm
>going to use mif2rtf for the conversion. (oy!, don't
>ask) Would you do the indexing in Frame and then
>convert it over, or would you convert it, then index
>it in Word. I'm thinking more along the lines of which
>program has better indexing capabilities without
>add-ins.
Heretical though it may sound, I think Word has better built-in indexing
features than Frame. Frame has better index manipulation tools, but you
can't actually see the index entry without going to a separate dialog box.
The nice thing is that index entries are one of the things that convert
very well from Frame to Word and back again.
>3) For a one-time indexing project (complex 450 page
>manual), would IXGEN be worth the investment, or would
>the learning curve negate the time it would save?
Unless it's a very complicated index, I'd say no. But I've never used
IXGEN.
--
"UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are."
Beth Friedman
bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com
