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My wife took the USDA basic indexing course and is taking the advanced now --- an index is more than a collection of words, but a creative effort in itself if done properly, and it's well worth keeping it.
In an ebook which reflows there is the issue of what to use for the markers in the index to refer back to specific references when there's more than one --- my thought would be that the index should be re-worked so that each such marker is a unique word, so instead of:
hanging punctuation, 27, 37, 57
you'd have:
hanging punctuation
advantages of
implementation as an ``easier problem'' in TeX
support in page layout programs
Since one doesn't have the page count limitations of a printed book, the index can be much richer and more verbose.
William
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