From kristin.manke@pnl.gov Fri Oct 2 07:46:47 1998 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id HAA19702 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:46:47 -0700 Received: from pnl.gov (gate.pnl.gov [130.20.64.36]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id HAA30396 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:46:46 -0700 Received: from pnlmse1.pnl.gov by pnl.gov (PMDF V5.1-11 #21283) with ESMTP id <01J2HKB5YLDC8X0L36@pnl.gov> for INDEX-NW@u.washington.edu; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:46:41 PDT Received: by PNLMSE1.pnl.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id <4C31CA70>; Fri, 02 Oct 1998 07:46:41 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 07:46:40 -0700 From: "Manke, Kristin L" Subject: Repetitive text and indexing entries: Any ideas?? To: "'INDEX-NW@u.washington.edu'" Message-id: <5F3E5C7DC23AD111BA84006097D159800108CA49@pnlmse7.pnl.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-type: text/plain Hello, I'm working on a book regarding tank waste at the Hanford Site (World War II nuclear weapons production site). It is written "both for the lay reader and the technical person wanting to gain an understanding of the issues" surrounding Hanford tanks. I've been wanting to do the index on this short book (77 pages) for almost a year, so I'm really excited about doing it, but I've run into a snag. Here it is: what do you do when the text is repetitive? In my first pass, I've got six page references for the term "neutralization." In looking at the information, they don't tell me a whole lot that is different. Should I include all of the page references, even though they lead to very similar information? Should I only use one and risk frustrating the reader who remembers finding it worded differently? Tanks, er Thanks, in advance, Kristin Manke Detailed example: page 8 "Before being piped to a carbon-steel tank, these highly radioactive wastes were mixed with sodium hydroxide to neutralize the acidic liquids by making the solutions strongly basic." page 12 "To reduce costs, the U.S. Government build carbon steel tanks for storng waste which was made alkaline by adding sodium hydroxide." page 19 "Before the acidic waste was discharged to the tanks, it was neutralizeed with sodium hydroxide because the acid would corrode the carbon-steel tank; this process added large quantities of sodium." page 35 "Acidic waste from the reprocessing plants was made alkaline by adding sodium hydroxide. This caused some of the waste to form solid particles..." page B.2 "The waste [from this process] was neutralized and sent to the tanks." page B.3 "The waste [from this process] was neutralized and sent to the tanks." Entry: neutralization sodium hydroxide, 8, 12, 19 precipitation from, 35 fuel processing, B.2, B.3 .