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(08-16-2014 09:22 PM)walter b Wrote:  What do you want that index to contain?
(08-16-2014 08:13 PM)hansklav Wrote:  Well, for instance:
- words and abbreviations that are important specifically in the context of the WP 31S, e.g. ‘UNDO’, ‘IOP’, ‘register browser’, ‘RESET’, ‘USB’.
- the first occurrence of words that not everybody understands immediately, e.g. ‘monadic’, ‘dyadic’; hopefully the term is explained there.
- mathematical concepts that are treated more or less extensively, like some statistical distributions, PMF, PDF, CDF.

Hmmh, I think I wrote a manual ... so call me old-school, but if you start reading at the beginning you'll find those topics covered in ...

(…)

Summing up, even the Table of Contents may be worth reading.

Do I have to repeat everything in an index? No, Sir, I'm not convinced yet.

Naturally, if you read every book from start to finish no book needs an index.

But in my experience every German non-fiction book has an index.
And many HP calculator manuals have an index.

So there are more people who find indices useful.

But of course it was just a suggestion.
And it’s your baby…

Regards,

Hans
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