Just last week I found some really bad errors. I communicated to another staff member, but I subsequently got a message from the editor thanking me profusely...
... Stating the obvious doesn't help explain your case. I never said, at any point, that "the Future" wasn't a valid concept or index heading in some books....
... Yes, of course it should be a main heading. Ken was asking how it should read as a SUBENTRY. More to the point, he was asking about the use of "the." Just...
Explicating my own message-- ... Where future generations appears to be a noun or determiner phrase. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_phrase ) But the...
RE: "The Future", subheading of Ah-- I for one had forgotten that the original question was about subentries. I readily admit that since I rarely post to these...
RE: intergenerational justice, mainheading of Earlier I was thinking the phrase intergenerational justice might ~not~ be a common phrasing. A couple years ago...
If an index entry in a book, for example, starts with *The*,* *then many entries will migrate to *T*, where the innocent reader will not think of looking. ...
We generally use CMOS, which I should have consulted first: In titles beginning with *The*, *A*, or *An*, the article is traditionally placed at the end of the...
There is another alternative Levi and that is to lead with "The" in titles but force sort it to the word following the "The" KH ... traditionally ... forms a ...
... Most of my clients prefer that style. Cheers, Carol Roberts http://www.RobertsIndexing.com http://www.ArtWanted.com/CarolR Please do not use this address...
The following from CMOS is about titles (might one use the term "proper noun phrases"?); the original question was about improper noun phrases beginning with...
I believe in the integrity of a title and find placing a leading article at the end inelegant at best. Because of the CMS rule, I always check with new clients...
I do not understand the attitude of the project editor,. He should have been grateful for the bonus. I am working on two books both as copy editor and indexer,...
So what would you do if your client requested it? ... Cheers, Carol Roberts http://www.RobertsIndexing.com http://www.ArtWanted.com/CarolR Please do not use...
As my editor puts it, there are issues about which one should take a stand, and issues about which it is not worth it. There is intellectual honesty, there is...
Do you mind if I ask how long you've been indexing? ... Cheers, Carol Roberts http://www.RobertsIndexing.com http://www.ArtWanted.com/CarolR Please do not use...
Including my own books, one of which is itself a classified index, and another an alphabetical index, about 25 years. L ... -- Sefer haMekorot Part 1 (Third...
What do you mean by classified index? Subject, author/name, scripture, locrum, song title, poem (first line), legal case indexes I'm familiar with but what...
My experiences in various businesses have lead me over and over again back to the idiom and cliche- "He who pays the piper calls the tune." I am in business to...
Can you say more about metatopics? Rosey Richard Harper: . . . . My overall sense, given the large number of occurrences of "the future" in the text-- along...
Okay, I tried googling "locrum indexes" just now (and didn't just pop off the question!) but what I got was some foreign entries and information about an...
Okay, I tried googling "locrum indexes" just now ... Oddly enough, when I just did the same: locrum indexes Google returned... Did you mean: locorum indexes ...
Aha! An index of places! Rosey indexlady: Okay, I tried googling "locrum indexes" just now ... Oddly enough, when I just did the same: locrum indexes Google...
Sorry--sometime I type too fast...the word is locorum and refers to an index of classical citations from books like Homer's Iliad or Plato's Republic. And may...
... Hazel Bell writes about classification in indexes in her Occasional Papers on Indexing Biographies. The index to the most recent version has three...
Deborah Patton
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I'm aware that classification is sometimes used in indexes (Mulvany's first edition has an interesting commentary on classification as used or not used in an...
RE: Metatopics I am probably not the world's leading expert on them. (Putting it mildly.) They have been discussed a lot on various indexer's lists in the last...
... I'm doing one even as we speak (and a subject index, too) on Descartes's Meditations. Fortunately, I figured out how to use abbreviations in Cindex to type...
