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First off, Happy New Year's everyone - I hope this new year brings us all new clients, lots of work - and on-time payments and schedules from our clients! I am...
Bobbi Swanson
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Jan 2, 2007
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6033
... I don't know your context but I'd probably just go with managed health care development of, 5-8 and not break it down that far. Not necessarily, though. ...
Rae
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Jan 2, 2007
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Thanks so much Rae! I hope your new year has gotten off to a great start! Bobbi ... From: "Rae" <racric@...>...
Bobbi Swanson
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Jan 2, 2007
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... It makes perfect sense to me, unless that's *all* you have under "managed health care." If so, then I'd just combine them and eliminate the subs. ...
Ed Rush
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Jan 2, 2007
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Hi Bobbi, It works for me, but I wouldn't use it unless there are other subheadings under managed health care. Thank you for the New Year wishes. I hope the...
Jessica McCurdy Crooks
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Jan 2, 2007
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... Hi Bobbi, I have this problem a lot, particularly where scholarly economics books give a quick (20 page) overview of the complete history of a country to...
James Lamb
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Jan 2, 2007
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I wrote this late last night, and should have clarified this a bit more. Yes, there is a lot more information, the entire chapter is on the development of...
Bobbi Swanson
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Jan 2, 2007
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6039
The book I'm indexing has many web addresses that I must index. It uses "Web site" but I'm wondering what the preferred term is. website? web site? Web site? ...
Elizabeth A. McCarthy
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Jan 2, 2007
6:21 pm
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... I've always used "Web site" in my personal stuff. However, the preferred term is whatever the author uses. Cheers, Carol ... Indexing services:...
Carol Roberts
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Jan 2, 2007
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6041
... Merriam-Webster has "Web site," and that's what I use if not instructed otherwise. Publishers vary widely in their choice of term. Katharine R. Wiencke ...
redpoll2
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Jan 2, 2007
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... Merriam-Webster has "Web site," and that's what I use if not instructed otherwise. Publishers vary widely in their choice of term. Katharine R. Wiencke ...
Katharine Wiencke
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Jan 2, 2007
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... For those of us dinosaurs who don't jump onto the style du jour until it has proven itself, "Web" is capitalized because it is part of "World Wide Web." A...
Ed Rush
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Jan 2, 2007
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6044
I enter this term in almost all of the books I index for my main client, and it is always "Web site" I don't enter the actual Web address under the heading,...
Bobbi Swanson
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Jan 2, 2007
8:58 pm
6045
... This is the kind of stuff I don't waste time worrying about. I look to see what the author/editor has done, and that's what I do. If I think there's an ...
Write Guru
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Jan 2, 2007
9:15 pm
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Thanks to everyone! Looks like I'll be going with Web site! Elizabeth Elizabeth A. McCarthy Indexing 128 Forest Avenue Hudson, MA 01749 emindexing@... ...
Elizabeth A. McCarthy
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Jan 2, 2007
10:14 pm
6047
Hi, all- I have a snake-eating-its-tail terminology thingy in the book I am doing. First there is the term 'compulsion to repeat' and THEN there's the term...
Margy
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Jan 3, 2007
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... From: "Margy" <margyo@...> ... I think that you need to separate them like this, because "repetition compulsion" is a term of art in Freudian...
Julie Shawvan
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Jan 3, 2007
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6049
... If you're confident they're synonymous (they appear to be), I would simply pick one term and cross-reference from the other. The phrases are similar enough...
Carol Roberts
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Jan 3, 2007
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... Then I would pick that one and cross-ref from the other. -*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*— Ed Rush Boise, Idaho ed@... ...
Ed Rush
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Jan 3, 2007
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6051
If you are convinced that they are truly synonyms in the context of the book, then: compulsion to repeat/repetition compulsion, xx, xx, xx, xx repetition...
James Lamb
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Jan 3, 2007
1:36 pm
6052
Pick one as primary. Cross-reference the non-preferred term. The indexer's first duty is to the index _user_ -- not to the author who uses terms...
Carolyn Weaver
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Jan 3, 2007
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The beauty of using something like "compulsion to repeat/repetition compulsion" or "compulsion to repeat (repetition compulsion)" is that ya give index users a...
Kari J. Kells
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Jan 3, 2007
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6054
... One could say, technically, that a Web link leads to a Web site; that they are two different objects. In normal conversation and writing, I use the term...
Sonsie Conroy
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Jan 3, 2007
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... From: "Kari J. Kells" <kkells@...> ... Kari and others have far superseded my meager contribution, but I do want to reiterate that the Freudian term...
Julie Shawvan
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Jan 3, 2007
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6056
Hi folks, I just had a call from an author looking for an indexer- he has a 3 part book (about 350 pages) on local botanist: the first part is the biography, ...
Rachel Lewin
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Jan 3, 2007
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6057
... Quite so - the terms are not true synonyms, and the solution: compulsion to repeat/repetition compulsion, xx, xx, xx, xx repetition compulsion _see_...
James Lamb
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Jan 3, 2007
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... That was definitely a typo I meant compulsion to repeat/repetition compulsion, xx, xx, xx, xx repetition compulsion _see_ compulsion to repeat with the...
James Lamb
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Jan 3, 2007
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6059
All, A longtime client has asked me to create a gazetteer in addition to the index for a 4th grade textbook. Has anyone done one of these? I haven't and would...
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indexernora
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Jan 4, 2007
3:12 am
6060
... I imagine it would be pretty much the same as a names index, except that the names are of places, not people. ...
Ed Rush
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Jan 4, 2007
3:43 am
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Now that I've finished entering everything, I find that there are many main entries that have only one locator after them, however, when I reconcile headings,...
Elizabeth A. McCarthy
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Jan 4, 2007
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