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Woohoo! Everyone's favorite! I have a partial answer to question 1: "The
Chicago Manual of Style" has an excellent and extensive chapter on
indexing. You might also want to check out the STC website. Under
"Publications: click "Indexes" - a quick search on the word index turned
up a number of matches. If you aren't an STC member, and thus receiving
their publications, I think you can order individual copies.
Good luck!
John Posada wrote:
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> 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??)
>
