On Saturday 18 July 2009 11:03:28 am D. R. Evans wrote: > Christoph Sch?fer said the following at 07/18/2009 01:37 AM : > > Am Freitag, 17. Juli 2009 16:11:45 schrieb D. R. Evans: > >> D. R. Evans said the following at 07/16/2009 04:23 PM : > >>> I'm sure this is answered somewhere in the manual, but I > >>> can't find it (actually, that's my biggest complaint about > >>> the manual... I just cannot find stuff in it; maybe I'm just > >>> too used to the TeXbook's index). > >> > >> I think I should make it clear, having seen how this thread > >> has developed, that I chose the TeXbook merely as an example > >> of a book with a wonderful index -- I don't think I have ever > >> failed to find what I wanted after consulting its index. It > >> had nothing to do with the fact that the TeXbook happens to be > >> about putting characters on a page. > >> > >> Perhaps the following figures are telling: > >> > >> Scribus manual length: ~430 pages > >> Scribus index length: ~6 pages > >> > >> TeX manual length: ~455 pages > >> TeX index length: ~25 pages > > > > As one of the main authors of the manual I have to say that the > > index is always up for improvements. However, I don't think > > it's a good idea to compare the index of a Scribus book with a > > (La)TeX book. After all, (La)TeX > > I think that maybe you're looking at this from the point of view > of an index producer rather than that of an index consumer. > > The consumer wants to know how to do X. The number of different X > things that he might want to do is (presumably) more or less the > same for TeX and for Scribus. If that assumption is correct, then > it should be more or less equally as difficult to find out how to > do something in the two cases; but as an index consumer > unfortunate experience leaves me in no doubt that I am vastly > more likely to be able to figure out how to do what I want from > the TeXbook index than from the Scribus index. > > Having whined, though, I am not sure how to improve the Scribus > index. If I look at it form the point of view of an index > producer, it's not at all obvious how to make it more useful :-( > > Doc
I have purchased a copy of the book. If someone would release to me the final pdf of the interior pages I could index it again, making sure that present items were included but adding more. I have done many indexes. I would do this gratis. -- Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com For books on self-publishing please consult: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
