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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Agreed.
In my mind, I'm saving linkifying indexes as a "future-me" problem.
I've had the methods floating around in my head for years now, and I know all the individual steps work... it's just getting around to coding it up.
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What WOULD work for a "real" electronic linked index would be something that actually uses the tags--whether INDD or Word or Bob's Big Word Processor--and places a tag or anchor where the INDD mark is placed. That would work.
Then the reader could tap, read, and then, you'd have to be utterly reliant on the kindness of "back" functionality to take you back to the entry in the index where you were exploring. There wouldn't be any realistic, viable way to encode "back to index" functions--but I'm not sure, in 2020, that we
need that. Even in 2009, the Kindle had "back" and so too does pretty much every device today.
Early in the biz, in 2010, say, we had to worry about back, but today, we really don't.
I mean...as a non-programmer and someone who has never gotten "inside" what INDD does (or Word) to that level of detail, when a spot is indicated/marked/tagged as "this index entry goes here,"
how hard would that be? Does anyone know? It
can't simply tag the top of the "page," because that can move, as the file is revised. Forward, backward, whatever. So
the mark must be at the location, not the page.
You'd
think that somebody, anybody, would be working on this. (Now I'll find out from somebody here that this already exists. {sigh}).
Hitch