Thanks to Jeannine and Barbara for the insight into Adobe 8. I did install it and it is quite different. I haven't figured out how to make the search box stay...
... When I first worked as a technical writer in an engineering setting, I wondered how the engineers learned to write so poorly. Then I took some engineering...
... They also need to stop adopting texts, and stop approving them as theses, when they find plagiarism and fraud. They need to start letting publishers, and...
Care needs to be taken in quoting others. I did *not* post the rather strange comment. Mainly. Publishers make adoption decisions, reviewers just review...
If you click the button Arrange Windows, it'll resize your text window so the search is side by side with it. Click it again and they're like two separate...
Arrange Windows will keep both the search and text window up at the same time even if you resize each window manually, for example, narrowing the Search window...
I am genuinely sorry, Joel. No excuse, except my stupidity. For some reason, when I reread, I read as though the professors were adopting the titles to be...
Jill- I just read Barbara's comments. I think she is talking about Adobe Reader 8 and I was talking about Adobe Acrobat Professional 8. I just wanted to make...
The Merriam-Webster Collegiate leading definition of "error" is "an act or condition of ignorant or imprudent deviation from a code of behavior." This...
There are still a few seats available for the Information Architecture and Usability Workshop plus Peer Review on April 14, 2007, at the Park Ridge Library. ...
I won't quarrel with Merriam-Webster -- or with Pam. I meant merely to note what I took from the word "error". Although I would call "deviation from a code...
I am SJ Christner, and while not new to this group, I am a beginning student in the UC Berkeley indexing course. My work (editing, proofreading, indexing) in...
Hi One of my publishers has employed an indexing expert to check our indexes. She insists that there should never be any locators after main headings or after...
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Kim writes: "One of my publishers has employed an indexing expert to check our indexes. She insists that there should never be any locators after main...
Kim, this is one of those fun (for some of us) discussions that almost always becomes heated. Feathers often get ruffled when indexers discuss this. (I think I...
In a message dated 04/04/2007 15:33:16 GMT Standard Time, kkells@... writes: Kim, this is one of those fun (for some of us) discussions that almost ...
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Ooooooh, it just occurred to me that this is one of those "rules" spread by Kurt Ament in his book _Indexing: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide for Technical Writers_....
... I would assume that this means that either a main heading has locators, or subheads, so either: regal period, 27, 29, 32 or regal period dates, 27 economic...
There are some issues here in the single-sourcing world that should also be brought up. It doesn't sound like this publisher is single sourcing, but they may...
I'd like to add to the comments Jan made below. In one corporate setting, I was told that since some Help system developers put the overview discussion at the...
... Kim, this is common in legal texts, and especially in statutes (state code) indexing. So, even if a topic has only a single locator, you will see a ...
Hello everyone, I have just begun UC Berkeley's indexing course and think I may have actually completed the first assignment properly. I became interested in ...
April 14 meeting at Cadmus Communications (8621 Robert Fulton Drive, Columbia, MD) from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm. COMPUTER PRODUCTIVITY: If a computer is your stock...
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Here's another taxonomist job posting for ya. Once again, all I know about the job is what I've seen in this posting, so if you're interested in applying...
I've recently begun to question the way I handle titles. Ordinarily, if the text says "Czar Nicholas II," I would enter it this way: Nicholas II, czar of...
... One might ask CMS why Anne is Queen but Elizabeth II merely queen. Why not Anne (queen); or if disambiguation is needed, Anne (queen of England)? ... ...
... Because they're showing three different styles, not three examples of one style. ... Not according to the Cambridge Biographical Dictionary. Anyway, that ...
If I were editing the index that included Nicholas II, czar [or tsar] of Russia I'd delete "of Russia." Do we know of any other countries that called their...
