[mso] Re: Alphabetizing table of contents- how??
- From: "James S. Huggins \(mso\)" <MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:27:06 -0600
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In the UK we often use "table of contents" and "index"
interchangeably, whereas Microsoft assigns specific uses to them.
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Interesting. There are differences between the englishes. We are countries
divided by a common language.
For me, being educated in the USofA, they are as different as night and
Knight.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_contents
A table of contents, usually headed simply "Contents," is a list of the
parts of a book or document organized in the order in which the parts
appear. The contents usually includes the titles or descriptions of the
first-level headers, such as chapter titles in longer works, and often
includes second-level or section titles (A-heads) within the chapters as
well, and occasionally even third-level titles (subsections or B-heads). The
depth of detail in tables of contents depends on the length of the work,
with longer works having less. Formal reports (ten or more pages and being
too long to put into a memo or letter) also have tables of contents.
Documents of fewer than ten pages do not require tables of contents, but
often have a short list of contents at the beginning.
Some style manuals recommend keeping tables of contents under three pages so
they can be surveyed easily. Since they lack the alphabetical arrangement
that makes indexes so accessible, anything longer can become difficult to
scan.
And continuing ...
Within an English-language book, the table of contents usually appears after
the title page, copyright notices, and, in technical journals, the abstract;
and before any lists of tables or figures, the foreword, and the preface.
On the other hand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(publishing)
An index is a list of words or phrases ('headings') and associated pointers
('locators') to where useful material relating to that heading can be found
in a document. In a traditional back-of-the-book index the headings will
include names of people, places and events, and concepts selected by a
person as being relevant and of interest to a possible reader of the book.
The pointers are typically page numbers, paragraph numbers or section
numbers.
And continuing ...
In books, indexes are usually placed near the end (this is commonly known as
"BoB" or back-of-book indexing). They complement the table of contents by
enabling access to information by specific subject, whereas contents
listings enable access through broad divisions of the text arranged in the
order they occur.
Because this is my personal use and understanding of the terms, the concept
of an alphabetized table of contents never made sense to me in this
discussion unless the contents themselves were also alphabetized.
But that is just me.
James S. Huggins
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