Re: indexing question

["David Mackinder" <davemack () gmail ! com>]

don't worry about font matching; the main 'trick' is to change the
page length to something unfeasibly large, then manually insert page
breaks to make your pagination exactly match that of the page proofs.
You should be able to do quite a bit of the index tagging before you
receive the page proofs. If you're determined to do your own indexing,
make sure you get house style details from your publisher, and do some
'homework' by browsing the appropriate chapter(s) of the Chicago
Manual of Style and/or get hold of a copy of Nancy C. Mulvany's
Indexing Books.

On 4/5/06, Stephen Feldman <SFeldman@uwyo.edu> wrote:
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> I have a question about indexing . . .
> I don't understand, however, how such an index, marked in the NB text, would
> be useable. For my previous books, the publisher has sent me page galleys,
> and then asks for an index (within a week or so). Naturally, the publisher
> wants the index coordinated with the page numbers in the galleys, not the
> page numbers in the original NB text (or the original NB text converted into
> RTF or something else). How, then, is the automatic indexing function
> useful?
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> The only possible remedy that I can imagine would be to convert the NB
> document into whatever font the publisher is using (in the galleys), thus
> approximating in the NB document the page breaks in the galleys. But, at
> best, this would be an approximation and would require manual checking (if I
> want the index to be accurate) . . .