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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
Actually we have some magazine in ebook and paper. An geopolitical one, one talking about literature for children and one for handicap. When we cite books, articles, movies, comics, historical events, we use a markup that allow us to build several interactive index, or glossary. I don't think this is a "dredging sludge for bits of broken bottle", but offer different ways to the reader to access the magazine, search information, have a global idea of what the magazine is talking about, move from one article to another coherent with the first one.
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Well you see I am of the school of thought that a glossary and index should be done by hand by the author. They may have used software in its preparation or they may just have done it the long way on postcards, but it is selective and intuitional, not automatic and blanket. There are many words that shouldn't be in a glossary, and an index is better if it looks like a human has put some thought into it. But, failing that, a late-stage index and glossary from this kind of tagging is better than nothing.