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In article <C1HDzD.6G2@unx.sas.com> sasjcs@canoe.unx.sas.com (Joan Stout) writes:
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>In article <1993Jan26.181754.9854@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>, marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson) writes:
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>|> >I can't help thinking that indexing by hand should be banned under the
>|> >Geneva Convention. :-)
>|>
>|> No argument here. I think it also contravenes the constitutional ban on
>|> cruel and unusual punishment if you happen to be in the US. :-)
>
>Hey! Some of us *like* indexing and some of us do it for a living.
>(In my case, only *part* of my living.) Some of us even like it 
>enough to do most of it by hand. I have indexing software to take
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>care of the real drudgery, but a professional indexer knows that
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>computers can't index.

I think we could be getting confused here.

When I talk about indexing by hand, I'm referring to going through the
proofs and writing down entries somewhere on a list. If someone needs
to insert a page, all the entries get stuffed up.

When using a computer, I am not talking about making one of those
horrible keyword indexes where someone has entered a list of words and
the index consists of every incidence of those words.

I use a computer {xe "Index:with computer"} to index by entering tags
{xe "Tags:entering index tags"} {xe "Index:tags"} throughout the text.
The tags contain the information that I want shown in the index entry.
{xe "Index:compiling list"} The computer then compiles the index for
me.
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