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From: robinson@prism.gatech.EDU (Stephen M. Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Microsoft Word Documentation
Summary: How about KWIC indexing?
Keywords: Word, documentation, indexes
Message-ID: <1331@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 2 Aug 89 19:05:42 GMT
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Reply-To: robinson@prism.gatech.EDU (Stephen M. Robinson)
Organization: Georgia Tech Computer Science, AI Group
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Why don't we see more KWIC indexing for large applications like MSWord? (KWIC
= Key Word In Context.)  Admittedly, KWIC indexing can take a bit more paper
but I know that I've found KWICs very helpful in the past, particularly for
large systems.  As an example, volume 10 of the Symbolics genera 7.x documen-
tation is a several hundred page KWIC index which is invaluable to using the
system and its documentation.  Concepts, functions, etc are indexed under
every word in their description (the short form of their description, that is,
not the entire text which discusses them!) so you will find "defun special
form" indexed under "defun" "special" and "form" (and several other key
words too such as major argument types).  Just wondering...

P.s.  I use Word4.0 quite a bit and like it.  Thank goodness I don't have to
do my Lisp development on a Mac........

-- 
Stephen M. Robinson, AI Group, School of Information and Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0280  404-894-8932
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