I am embarking on creating an index for a manual of about 200 pages (written in LyX of course).
I studied up all the advice I could find, and as a result set out to produce a list of all the unique words in the book. Alas it came to over 3000 words. Even going through and removing the little works like and, the, but, etc would be an enormous and tedious task. My intuitive guess is that it would be better to go through the book and pick the words to put into the index and just do it, rather than the recommended approach of culling from a comprehensive list of words. Could someone on the list who has actually created an index advise if this is really the best approach? regards John O'Gorman
