Erik Hennum wrote:
> An index term doesn't indicate the presence of a word or two at a location
> but, instead, a thought expressed by a complete phrase, paragraph, list,
> section, topic, or group of topics.
I don't think I can accept this statement in this absolute a form: for
many authors index terms are precisely a marker indicating the
occurrence of a specific word or phrase at a specific location.
That is, while sometimes index entries are exactly as Erik states (and
this is why they would normally generate a page range in the rendered
index) it is not an exclusive, or necessarly even typical, use of index
markers.
Cheers,
Eliot
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