[mso] Re: Alphabetizing table of contents- how??
- From: "David Smart" <smartware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:31:45 +1100
Apologies, I misread.
Yep, I agree that indexes are of dubious use in PDFs.
Regards, Dave S
----- Original Message -----
From: "James S. Huggins (mso)" <MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:44 AM
Subject: [mso] Re: Alphabetizing table of contents- how??
>I wrote:
>>I have a philosophical question.
>> Given that one is preparing an ebook ... e.g., a PDF ... how important is
>> a
>> printed index?
>> That is, given that a reader can EASILY search for a term using the PDF
>> tools, how much trouble is an index worth?
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Dave S replied
>
> I do use TOCs in PDFs. A couple of reasons:
>
> - A search will lead you through all the occurrences of your specified
> text
> until you eventually arrive at the one you want. This may or may not be a
> long search.
>
> - A TOC allows you to look at the contents within the context/flow of the
> document. This is useful when you know what information you're looking
> for,
>
> but might not know precisely what the author has called it.
>
> Regards, Dave S
> ---------------------------------------
>
> I reply to clarify ...
>
> Dave ... I was asking not about TOCs but about indexes. All my PDFs
> currently include a rather complete and thorough PDF which word
> automagically creates well based on the explicit document document
> structure. But I wasn't asking about Tables of Contents. Rather I was
> asking
> about indexes. For me, personally, these two items, table of contents and
> index are not the same and are not interchangable.
>
>
> James S. Huggins
>
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