Well --- as an initial thought.... If you have the list of terms to be indexed, you could do a S&R on each term to get the count for that term. That's a pain for 1300 terms, but there as S&R tools that can be scripted. (alternatively, there are concordance tools that can list the number of occurances of a list of words.) That would get you a scope. Alternatively, you could take a few sample pages, count the number of index entries that would be needed on each page, average them, and then extrapolate for the entire document.
As for what/how to charge... That's not something I can advise you on. Per term? Per entry instance? Per hour? If the indexing is simply "...the eggs[egg] were found in the nest[nest]..." "Canadian troops [Canadian:troops, troops:Canadian] were deployed..." that's pretty simple. However, when it gets to 3rd order entries, that starts to be more costly. "... to Afghanistan [Canadian:troops:Afghanistan, troops:Canadian:in Afghanistan; Afghanistan:Canadian troops in] as part of the Global War on Terror" And if you have to do alternative usage [soldiers: See troops.][military forces See also armies; see also navies, see also air forces], those get even more problematic. Hope I've not confused the issue. There is a Indexers list (Index-L) that might have some helpful archives. Grant -----Original Message----- From: framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters....@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ann Zdunczyk Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:57 PM To: framers at FrameUsers.com; framers at omsys.com Subject: OT: Indexing Hi all, I know some of you guys do indexing a lot. I have been asked to quote doing an index in Pagemaker (sorry). There are 1300 terms that are to be listed in the index. In Pagemaker, as in Framemaker, I would need to add an index entry for each instance of the term in a 300 page book. I have no idea how may entries will need to be entered. Does anyone have any idea the best way to quote something like this. Z ****************************************************************** Ann Zdunczyk President a2z Publishing, Inc. Language Layout & Translation Consulting Phone: (336)922-1271 Fax: (336)922-4980 Cell: (336)456-4493 http://www.a2z-pub.com ****************************************************************** _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as Grant.Hogarth at reuters.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/grant.hogarth%40reut ers.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.