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- Date: 27 Jul 92 15:10:53 U
- From: "Carol Roberts" <carol_roberts@qmrelay.mail.cornell.edu>
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on Indexing
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- Reply to: RE>Thoughts on Indexing
- These are all interesting topics. As a copyeditor, my reaction to the question
- about whether bias can be eliminated in an index is, "SHOULD bias be eliminated
- in an index?" That is, shouldn't an index be a custom fit, with all the
- quirkiness-the human touch, if you will-that that implies? Having produced just
- one electronic index myself, my feeling was that it was a very useful tool, but
- no more a replacement for a human indexer than a grammar program is for a
- copyeditor. It will be interesting to see what electronic indexing looks like
- when it grows up.
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