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(09-09-2013 23:07)haggis999 Wrote:  Hypertext documents are really quite different animals from conventional printable documents. I did a quick search for conversion tools but the results were all for converting in the opposite direction, i.e. Word to HTML, and such conversions probably generate poor examples of hypertext.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by saying that you "will be indexing the online version by section hyperlinks rather than an exact location in the text". That sounds more like a definition of a table of contents than an index. As it happens, I had already created one page of index entries in my Word doc before I saw your post. I have been using the built-in indexing facility of Word, which makes it fairly easy to list the relevant page numbers for all references to (for example) indexTags. The skill in indexing is in choosing which words to index, and that's also what takes the most time.

I meant that for each indexed word or phrase, there will be a hyperlink to the section that has the primary information about that word or phrase. Within this section there might be hyperlinks to other sections that also contain relevant information. This isn't the same as a table of contents because the TOC would have only one pointer to each section, whereas the index could have many pointers to the same section for different words or phrases.

The aim is for the index to provide a selection of helpful starting points for the main things that users need to know, rather than a complete list of all the places where some word or phrase appears in the main text.