🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan21.203546.45088@datamark.co.nz> thomas@datamark.co.nz  
(Thomas Beagle) writes:
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> ObWriting : When writing a manual, do you index as you go (and risk
> all sorts of incompatibilities) or do you index after the bulk of the
> manual is written?
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If I have my druthers, I wait to index until the bulk of the manual
is written, the draft has been tech reviewed at least once, and I
have incorporated the review comments.  I find that the closer I am
to a complete draft, the more consistent are the index hits that I
insert.  Also, because most of the of the *major* changes have usually
been made to the manual at this point, I spend less time indexing
material that gets dumped anyway and/or going back to index new
material that gets inserted.  (I don't always have my druthers...)

This is just my personal preference.  I know some of the folks around
here swear by the index-as-you-go technique.

Karen Fegley
Stratus Computer, Inc.
kaz@vineland.pubs.stratus.com