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Subject: Re: Translating and indexing Bamana
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Date: Thu, 7-May-87 13:28:45 EDT
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>She wants to build a subject index as she goes along, so that later
>when she wants to find, for example, all the references to Women
>Sculptors, she can do a query and get a list of line numbers and
>interview references.  It should be possible to merge these indexes.
>
>Can anyone give a realistic personal hardware and software setup
>which would make this as pleasant as possible?  Is there software
>designed to do this?

I'd consider using a good word processor such as Word 3.0x for the main
transcription and a solid outline processor like Acta to do the index
development.  Using Acta has the advantage that you don't need to be in the
WP to do work on the index, and that you can work on it at the same time as
the main transcription but independently.  You can also past the index
into a WP later to do final cleanup.  Acta has a lot of neat features that
would help including topic sorting and such.

chuq
Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		[I don't read flames]

There is no statute of limitations on stupidity