[mea] Re: estimating for Indexing
- From: "Jonah O'Neil" <jonah.oneil@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:47:14 -0500
Hi Cheri,
Whoa, boy, now I must declare my ignorance. I was not aware of programs
like FrameMaker, Macrex, or Cindex. And I did not know that MS Word had an
index feature.
I was going to make an index manually. But now I will look into Word's
index feature. Rather, I use a Mac, so maybe I'll look into Pages' index
feature, if it has one. (I do not own Pages. I have Microsoft Office 2004
for Mac, but it's not a great program.)
Nor have I looked into any particular method - Mulvaney's, Chicago's, or
otherwise.
There's an Indexing Society of Canada??
Okay, time to do some homework.
My client needs a quote on the overall project soon, so what I think I'll do
is quote separately for the indexing, after I've done more research.
Thanks so much, Cheri!
-Jonah
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:31 AM, <cheri.frazer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi, Jonah:
>
> I see your question and raise you a few more:
>
> -What tool are you working in to make the index? MS Word, FrameMaker, an
> Indexing program (such as Macrex or Cindex)... ?
> -If MS Word or Frame, etc., will you use the tool's index feature or make
> an index manually?
> -What method of indexing are you using? I've used Nancy Mulvaney's and
> Chicago's, which are slightly different from each other. I liked Mulvaney's
> but haven't checked out her updated version yet.
>
> Here are some resources if that helps any:
> http://www.indexers.ca/resources.html.
>
> It took me about 2 hours to index a 100-page user manual last time I did
> one in MS Word, plus an hour of testing and troubleshooting. But I'm not an
> experienced indexer, so there may have been an easier way.
>
> -Cheri
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> Hello,
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> A few weeks ago I posted a question regarding quoting for editorial work,
> and received some excellent responses - so thank you very much for that!
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> My new questions is about Indexing. I have never created an index for a
> client, although I grasp the general concept.
>
> How would one estimate the amount of time creating an index will take? And
> what kinds of questions should I ask the client to help me estimate the
> amount of time it will take to do the indexing?
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> Cheers,
> Jonah
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