Document (#7922)

Author

Oster, S.

Title

Indexes in computer documentation

Source

Technical communication. 41(1994) no.1, S.41-50

Year

1994

Abstract

An index is vital to technical documents, but creating them is often a problem for the writer. There are many kinds: subject, product, program command or function, and others. Writing entries involves decisions about level, key terms synonyms, definitions, cross references and phrasing; format decisions involve horizontal versus vertical spacing, page numbering, capitalization and punctuation

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