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Originally Posted by SigilBear
That's what I was thinking; make an index that consists primarily of plain text (not hyperlinked), but link things that are harder to search for, like "state tree."
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I would say most publishers lately have been removing the Index completely, some leave the plain text Index in the ebook (that is what I tend to prefer), and others might hyperlink all the "page numbers" in them.
I can't say I've seen one that mixes up plain text + hyperlinked words though.
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Originally Posted by SigilBear
Consider the following example from an index from a book in the public domain:
State Trees, 354-7; of, Idaho, 354-5; Illinois, 355
If I turned this book into a reflowable epub, then the page numbers wouldn't make sense. So how do most epub authors handle this kind of situation?
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IF you wanted to do a hyperlinked Index, the typical code looks like this:
You insert a link where the page break occurs (Page 354+355):
Then in the Index you would have to create all the links back:
Side Note: In this specific case, it would be even more of a giant pain in the ass to generate + check links for the condensed form of numbers: 354
-7 = 357.
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Originally Posted by SigilBear
Since epubs are searchable, I've thought of just creating a static index (i.e. no links) that lists key words that readers can then search for. (However, it wouldn't work for the example I posted above, which would have to be customized somehow.)
Have you ever seen such an index in an epub?
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Last time Indexes were brought up was in this topic, "Real Page Numbers for Reflowable Kindles":
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=279004
We went into very in-depth discussion on "Page Numbers" in ebooks (and how meaningful they are), how to do Indexes, Indexes compared to search, etc. etc.