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Re: Better to index in Word or Frame?

Subject: Re: Better to index in Word or Frame?
From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:53:30 -0800


Hart, Geoff wrote:


I haven't used Frame, but most professional indexers seem to love IXGen and
vastly prefer it over Frame's built-in tools. That being the case, Frame
sounds like a clear win, particularly if you can get IXGen to use with it.

As I wrote earlier, *anything* with a dedicated indexing interface is better than *anything* without a dedicated indexing interface.

Out of the box, I think Word and Framemaker offer pretty much the same strengths and weaknesses in terms of built-in support for indexing.

It is the existence of IXgen (Frank Stearns Associates, www.fsatools.com) that makes Framemaker the better choice.

Indexing in Word makes sense *only* if the source material is a Word document and has to stay that way, *and* you need to embed the index entries for ongoing maintenance or to accommodate certain specific situations where the index entries have to be developed as the text is being written.

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