[mea] Re: estimating for Indexing
- From: Carrie Walker-Jones <carriewalkerjones@xxxxxxxx>
- To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:50:46 -0700 (PDT)
jonah,
i always add in extra time when the learning curve is bound to be higher than
usual.
good luck,
carrie
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From: Jonah O'Neil <jonah.oneil@xxxxxxxxx>
To: mea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, October 12, 2010 8:47:14 AM
Subject: [mea] Re: estimating for Indexing
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:
>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,
>
>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!
>
>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?
>
>Cheers,
>Jonah
>
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