Collective Wisdom, I am indexing a book about acupuncture. Throughout the text, the author capitalizes numerous phrases that are not titles, such as ...
Oh yes, you do have to follow the initialization that the author used. It's pretty common in that type of book. sounds pretty interesting! Rae -- Rachel Rice,...
I would keep them capitalized. They sound like proper nouns in Chinese medicine. One of my favorites is External Pernicious Influences.... Or the point names,...
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Hello All, I have a question someone could probably help with. Two days ago, I received a call from a potential new client regarding an index for a 5th-7th...
... I was in a similar position once. I was asked to index geography textbooks for grades 5-8. I was told the 5-6 books were "simpler" than the 7-8 books, so I...
Dick, Actually, the font is really big, and there are a lot of pictures. Every page has a right margin with pictures in it consisting of about 1/3 of the...
I hope nobody was foolish enough to open any attachment in the previous message (alghough the attachment was stripped off before it reached me). It looks...
I sure hope there wasn't an embarrassing, nasty file attached to the previous message since I sure didn't send it, some #^@*! did. I hate spammers - yes, it's...
No thanks! Peter Rooney magnetix@... 212/334-2042...
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Interestingly enough, your message below, Martha, was trapped by my Outlook 2003 junk filter, I assume because of either the "Dadratit" in the subject, or the...
This is a great example of why I set my membership on all Yahoo lists to Nomail, and I read the list via the web. Attachments are stripped before the message...
... to Nomail You need a better reason than that. Attachements are not passed onto the list, so despite what the email may have said, the offending file...
This list is set up to disallow attachments. There are a few reasons for that. In our case, the main one is to avoid passing on viruses. There's no reason to...
Rae, If you haven't already done so, you might want to set up the list so that no attachments are forwarded. I made sure that was the setting on the two ...
Hi Shelley, It turns out I'm not gonna make it to the conference after all. Mostly for monetary reasons... I just bought a new computer; also because there's...
Actually, although I haven't checked the antivirus sites, there must be something running around all over the Net right now. I and my ISP have intercepted...
Actually, the indexersdiscussionlist is pre-set to remove attachments. I don't believe that there actually was an attachment connected with the message that...
I read a book review that stated,"My only quibble is that the book has no index." I am new to indexing. For practice I have already completed the index for...
... It is doubtful that the publisher is in the market for an index for a book that is already published. When it comes time to reprint, they might consider...
I got my first client by writing an index for one of their published books and sending it to them with a cover letter stating how my index would enhance the...
Actually this is a good idea, I think. Early on, I wrote an index to a book without an index and sent it to the author, Bill Moyers. He CALLED ME UP and we...
Is anyone available to review an index for me? It's an introductory college-level textbook in psychology. I'm doing a final edit now so the index should be...
... No worries. I figgered you meant it to go to indexpeers but it's fine to post review requests here as well. Rae -- Rachel Rice, MA Freelance indexing and...
Hey all. Would you leave the article in this name of a cooking school? L'Ecole des Chefs Relais Gourmand or Ecole des Chefs. . . The name actually includes the...
I am also so inclined. How are you going to alphabetize it, though? Joanne ... From: Rae [mailto:racric@...] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:38 AM To:...
