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Originally Posted by theducks
What is with all the permutations still being indexed?? 
All my readers include a search (I do wish there was a scope: section or all )
Setters
Breeds
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Ducky, my one twoo wuv:
Sweetie, it's not a concordance. An index exists for a reason. It's created by (hopefully) a reasonably intelligent person familiar with the book itself and the book's reading populace. It's to direct you to specific items of import on a given topic. Yes, the example I've provided is overly simplistic--why wouldn't someone just type "Irish Setter?" But there are many things that aren't that simplistic. We've done medical textbooks with thousands of pages and tens of thousands of indices. Who the hell wants to do a search for something in a book like that, that will undoubtedly return hundreds of incidences of the reference solely? You wouldn't.
AND, I'd point out (meant to also quote Shari about this), this is still the issue with doing what I mentioned--taking EVERY target, and putting in all the [Back to this][Back to that] stuff. In some books, you could have a list of 20 0r 50 or more "back to" items. It would be extremely disruptive for the reading flow.
The point of an index is, simply,
that it's curated. If all we are discussing are concordances--every instance of a searched term in the book--then, no: why have an Index at all?
Hitch