It has been a busy year. I had projects waiting for me when I got home from Christmas holidays, and the work hasn’t stopped since. It has been pretty tiring at times too. Working evenings and weekends? Check. Working on two indexes at once? Check. Have projects that take longer… Read More »Surfing the Schedule, and Those Damn Easy Projects
I am often asked, “How do you write an index?” This is often followed by, “Do you actually read the whole book?” Yes, actually, I do read the whole book. I need to know and understand the content that I am to direct the reader to. A computer search function… Read More »Metaphors for Writing an Index
Clients occasionally suggest to me that I start early on an indexing project, before the page proofs are finalized, by making a list of the terms that will appear in the index. The reasoning behind this is that when the page proofs are ready, I can search the PDF for these terms… Read More »The Word List Approach to Indexing