RE: KWIC (was Re: Word Indexing using a Master Doc and having non-sequential pagination)

["Chinell, David F \(GE Infrastructure\)" <David -dot- Chinell -at- GE -dot- com>]

Geoff:

I agree. In addition to your comments about indexing, I find it best to create a Word index in two passes, rather than attempting to simultaneously create and adhere to a keyword schema.

(An add-on indexing tool can be a great help, but I haven't been able to justify one.)

In the first pass I enter the term as the main entry. For that subentry, I write a terse note to myself about why I indexed this word (it's a lax, verbose kind of context indicator that will be refined into a schema).

I compile the index after the first pass and refine that index to create the schema.

Then (the tedious part) I go back and edit each index entry to remove my note and add the correct subentry.

(Here I use parts of a tool, built by Steve Hudson, that makes the index locators live hyperlinks.)

It's not the best approach, but it isolates the tasks which saves me much hair-pulling, and seems to lump most of the tedious stuff into one ugly clump.

Bear
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