Pehong Chen and Michael A. Harrison
EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-87-347
March 1987
http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/CSD-87-347.pdf
Index preparation is a tedious and time-consuming task. In this paper we indicate how the indexing process can be automated in a way which is largely independent of a specific typesetting system and independent of the format being used. Fundamental issues related to this process are identified and analyzed. Specifically, we describe a framework for placing index commands in the document and a general purpose index processor which transforms a raw index into an alphabetized version. The resulting system has proved very useful and effective in producing indexes for a book and several technical manuals. An evaluation of our system against indexing facilities available across a variety of document preparation environments is given.
BibTeX citation:
@techreport{Chen:CSD-87-347, Author = {Chen, Pehong and Harrison, Michael A.}, Title = {Automating Index Preparation}, Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley}, Year = {1987}, Month = {Mar}, URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/5581.html}, Number = {UCB/CSD-87-347}, Abstract = {Index preparation is a tedious and time-consuming task. In this paper we indicate how the indexing process can be automated in a way which is largely independent of a specific typesetting system and independent of the format being used. Fundamental issues related to this process are identified and analyzed. Specifically, we describe a framework for placing index commands in the document and a general purpose index processor which transforms a raw index into an alphabetized version. The resulting system has proved very useful and effective in producing indexes for a book and several technical manuals. An evaluation of our system against indexing facilities available across a variety of document preparation environments is given.} }
EndNote citation:
%0 Report %A Chen, Pehong %A Harrison, Michael A. %T Automating Index Preparation %I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley %D 1987 %@ UCB/CSD-87-347 %U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/5581.html %F Chen:CSD-87-347