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From: "Kat Nagel, MasterWork Consulting" <mlists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: Quick and Easy Poll
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> >When building your index (or concordance, really, since I am not an
> >Index artiste) do you include glossary entries? My instinct says
> >'no', but my instinct also said to have that last piece of
> >pizza at lunch - and that didn't work out too well. So... should I
> >include the glossary entries in the index?
> >
> >Rob Domaschuk
>
> Feed your instinct a Tums and give it a day off <g>
>
> I've included glossary entries ever since a client's VP complained:
> "I don't need a @#$% procedure. I just want to know what it IS!"
> So, I now include the glossary entries, but give them a distinctive
> typographic treatment that is defined in the index page headers. This
> is similar to the way I handle diagrams and graphics and other
> not-straight-text stuff. For example,
> N (in italics) = glossary entry
> N (boldface) = figure or table
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