I’ve had some interesting additions to indexes during author reviews, mostly about adding in additional mentions of names. One point of occasional tension between book indexers and authors will be how to handle names in the index. Authors have a tendency to lean in the direction of every-mention-of-every-name, or at least “every-mention-of-names-that-are-important-to-me.” 🙂 Meanwhile, the […]
Every-Name Indexes
In book indexing, we normally treat names and subjects similarly in terms of looking for significant mentions as opposed to automatically including all mentions of either category of terms. But if we do get a request from a client for every mention of a term, that request is normally focused on names. And not just […]