General: Indexing

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As we go through the text making edits, it is useful to consider terms that should be added to the index beyond those automatically created for examples, data sets, R functions, packages and \term{}s. There are several latex convenience macros defined for this purpose:

• \ix{} - add an index entry
• \IX{} - insert the term in the text and add an index entry
• \ixmain{} - flag an index entry as the main entry (printed in bold)
• \ixon{} and \ixoff{} to start and end the indexing of a topic spanning multiple pages

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The Chicago Manual of Style is probably the best guide to indexing

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NB: Not too long ago I compiled book-indexing.pdf that shows the index entries that have been entered for each page.

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Closed with Matt's work