[bksvol-discuss] Re: yikes, index has problems

Technically, the index is not considered core material, so you're not obliged 
to do anything with it if you don't want to. Personally, I always fix up end 
notes and indices. I always put spaces between the page numbers. Since the 
Bookshare tools replace tabs with spaces, there's no point in putting tabs for 
the subtopics. I would just put hard returns between the entries. You can't 
hope to duplicate the original formatting in the versions that Bookshare 
members will get anyway, so it should be enough to just make sure that the 
beginning of the next entry does not start on the same line as the end of the 
previous one.

The way that OCR recognizes new paragraphs, indices are always gonna come out 
mixed up, no matter what settings you use; so it's always going to be a good 
deal of work to unmix them. I applaud your efforts to do it, but if you feel 
it's too much work, you can forget about it.

Evan

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Devorah Greenstein 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:52 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] yikes, index has problems


  I'm just finishing up carefully going through a 300 plus page book with lots 
of endnotes. Everything has been fine, I've been working with a print copy of 
the book in front of me. But I just got to the index, the fourteen page index, 
two columns on each page. Some topics have subtopics, which are indented. What 
I have is a hodge-podge, with the scanner sometimes using hard returns, 
sometimes not, no spaces between page numbers, etc.

   

  I would appreciate expert advice about formatting the index. This is my first 
time with a complicated index. Should I use hard returns for each entry? Should 
I use tab stops for the subtopics?

  Do I need to put spaces between page numbers?

   

  Here is an example

   

  Experiments in Mental Suggestion

  (Vasiliev), 74 explicate order, 254-55 extrasensory perception (ESP): 
automated testing machines for, 68, 70

  ESP card tests, 83-89,162,

  193,288,289 research in, 74, 76, 82 Extra-Sensory Perception (Rhine), 70 
Extrasensory Perception After Sixty Tears

  (Rhine), 72, 84-85 eyewitness testimony, 246

   

   

  Experiments in Mental Suggestion (Vasiliev), 74 

  explicate order, 254-55 

  extrasensory perception (ESP): 

  automated testing machines for, 68, 70

  ESP card tests, 83-89,162,193,288,289 

  research in, 74, 76, 82 

  Extra-Sensory Perception (Rhine), 70 Extrasensory Perception After Sixty Tears

  (Rhine), 72, 84-85 eyewitness testimony, 246

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