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Originally Posted by bookman156
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.
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The two things are not one against the other: I believe that we will have a new type of editor who - on the one hand - organizes the text and its requirements, on the other hand formalizes and programs it. Not everything has to be marked. Computer runs query, but the information are handles by editor, author and publisher.