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Originally Posted by meme
The autofill option is always worth a try  |
Yeah, that's... helpful
We tend to omit indices in epubs, even when the DT editions has one. They're a bit superfluous when all readers and software have search functions. If you want to make the index functionality more useful, however, I have a couple of suggestions:
- Have separate columns for display and hit words; ie for the entry "vehicle" you could have it generate hits for "bus", "car", "boat" and so on
- Case insensitivity in the generation code. Capitalised words could occur at the start of a sentence.
- Have it pick up a marker such as a span class instead of all search hits. If England is mentioned many times in a few paragraphs, you really only need a link for the first one. This might be automated from the UI with a "Mark selected for index" button.
- Possibly make it multilevel. I don't really know how this should be handled in the UI, though.
As I said, at the end of the day I don't believe indexes will be necessary as a lookup tool, but they might be helpful as a "Summary of concepts" touched upon in the book.
On a side note I've been using the beta quite a bit now, and even prepared a commercial book for publication with it (might it be the first one made with the beta?). I love it, you guys have done an outstanding job.
