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Old 10-19-2022, 06:08 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Lets say and index entry belongs to multiple places in a book. How do you handle the multiple back links you'd need?
Come on, JSWolf, you know the answer to this.

Hitch has described the "many-to-one" and "one-to-many" problem a thousand times.

Just type this into your favorite search engine:

Code:
many-to-one Hitch site:mobileread.com
Indexes Hitch site:mobileread.com
Glossaries Hitch site:mobileread.com
Even the famous thread in 2017 and 2019 where she answered that exact thing:

Come on, you were even in most of these same threads!

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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
[...] for a book with these world's most worthless so-called indexes.

And OMG, you can hear and see Tex and me rant forEVER on the whole crackpot idea of trying to reverse-engineer indices. It boggles my brain that people think you can just push a g-damned button and Magic Happens.

[...]
Heh, I second everything you say.

And, in my case, I've seen so many errors/typos/mistakes in "linked Indexes", it made me want to pull my hair out.

There are also way more complicated Indexes than just your simple:
  • Term, ###.

(All of it was discussed to death in those threads.)

Anyway, we're getting way off track from poetry. :P

If JSWolf or others wants to start yet another Index discussion... probably best to create a new thread.

(But it's all been discussed to near-death... with not too many new tools/enhancements since.)

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