III - PRINTING
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
Summary
Some Indexers suppose that their work is complete when they have made their Index, but they need to prepare their copy for the press, and also to see that their instructions are carried out by the printer. Much of the value of an Index depends upon the mode in which it is printed, and every endeavour should be made to set it out with clearness. It was not the practice in old Indexes to bring the Indexed word to the front, but to leave it in its place in the sentence, so that the alphabetical order was not made perceptible to the eye. This is now changed, but the evil still exists in the newspaper lists of Births, Deaths and Marriages, more especially in those of the Times. When the penny papers were started they introduced the improvement of setting the name at the beginning of the entry as a heading. The Times took the hint from its less august contemporaries, but would not condescend to copy them completely, so that the extent of the change was the printing of the names in small capitals.
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- What is an Index?A Few Notes on Indexes and Indexers, pp. 66 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1879