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> I've been asked to look into using a consolidated index for our
> documentation. That is, each manual in a set of documentation (Reference
> Manual, User Manual, Installation Manual) would contain the same index,
> which would contain every index entry in every manual. It would look
> something like this:
>
> server, RM 303, UM 538
> installing IM 19, IM 28, IM 37
> setting up UM 542, IM 48
This sounds like it might be confusing... could you get the best of both
worlds by creating a master index for the whole doc set, but keep individual
indices in each book?
