On 12/12/06, Al Geist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I haven't index[ed] a manual in quite some time....and time is the reason
> why more than anything else.  There just isn't enough time allocated to
> most writing projects to do a decent Index.

Seconded.  We tell ourselves that it's less important these days
because we distribute our documents as PDFs, which are searchable with
Acrobat Reader (free), but there's no substitute for a well-crafted
index.

- bc

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