[X4U] Book Indexing Software?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 9:30 AM -0500 10/10/08, Linda wrote:
>On 10/10/08 9:19 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>>  I was asked the following question the other day and I haven't a
>>  clue.  Of course the software the person is talking about ran on DOS.
>>  Any ideas?
>
>There's indexing software out there. CINDEX is the one I hear referred to
>most often on the publishing lists to which I subscribe.
><http://www.asindexing.org/site/software.shtml>
>
>No substitute for the real thing -- that being people who know what to look
>for, doing it -- but handy tools nonetheless. I'm not sure that any software
>does *everything* your friend is looking for, though -- in my experience
>there are no substitutes for some human intervention at some stages of the
>process. YMMV; after 24 years in the publishing biz, I realized recently I
>am a curmudgeon.

I believe the request for information was in regards to creating 
indexes published Genealogy works.  At least I know that the person 
was doing such things years ago.  As I understand what they asked 
for, they're looking for something to format the information they 
type in, not something that will automatically generate an index 
based on an electronic copy of the document.

I'll forward on the info on CINDEX, but after checking the price I 
suspect they'll go with MS Excel (somehow that scares me).

Zane



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