RE: IX-nay (was RE: About Responsibility and Fault)

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John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- book -dot- com] said:
 
> >When you hit those kinds of constraints, especially 
> >if you are a contractor and don't have "leisure" time 
> >between deadlines (ok, everybody stop laughing...), 
> >would it be fair to say that things like real indexes
> >are one of the first things to go?
> 
> First to go? They never come. Sorry, but I don't index my 
> documentation.
> Ever.
> 
> My users are fine with keyword text and Boolean searching

Some of us still write docs that are meant to be printed.

I had not been indexing, but when a User Guide reached 400 
pages, I thought the lack was becoming a sore spot. The first 
pass took nearly a week -- in sharp contrast to some people's 
claims that it should take hours or a day-or-two.  A mere 
concordance wasn't going to cut it.

On the other hand, I think that anything up to 100 pages 
that's well organized and is well-served by the ToC, can 
probably do without an index.


Hey, your spell-checker reversed my bad pun -- I originally 
transposed "liesure", and then left it when I saw that it 
implied that I thought "leisure" was a lie, even for us 
captive employee types.

/kevin

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