On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Roger Binns wrote: > From the few authors I have spoken to, they don't make the index > themselves. The publisher does it using someone else and you end up with > junk, and they bill the author for it!
Roger, That's not always the case. Springer would not hire a professional indexer for my book, so I looked at a few texts on how to create indices, bought and read one, and went through several iterations until I had an index that I felt was usable. Not perfect, but not bad for a first attempt. I've not had any negative feedback on it. > It is a miracle any computer books are any good. I have several with indices that are highly usable. The topics include wxPython, SQL, PostgreSQL, and a bunch of others. In my experience, the SQLite book is an unfortunate exception. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
