From DStaub11@aol.com Fri Oct 2 16:32:09 1998 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id QAA48814 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:32:09 -0700 From: DStaub11@aol.com Received: from imo12.mx.aol.com (imo12.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.2]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id QAA02553 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:32:08 -0700 Received: from DStaub11@aol.com by imo12.mx.aol.com (IMOv16.10) id JRSKa19214 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:31:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5f40c79a.3615626a@aol.com> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:31:54 EDT To: index-nw@u.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Repetitive text and indexing entries: Any ideas?? Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 214 I agree with Sherry that (gritting my teeth) I would index all occurrences of substantive material, even if they're repetitive. The trick, of course, is finding appropriate subentries, and I sometimes do end up with more general page references than I would otherwise feel comfortable with. 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 >> The problem I see with this is that ALL of your neutralization pages are about sodium hydroxide (by default). Putting only a few of the pages under this subhead implies that the other neutralizations used another chemical--see what I mean? Looking at the quotes (and please keep in mind that this is ^not^ my field) I wonder if "cost" and "danger of corrosion" (or something) might be used as context subentries? I may be totally off in interpretation, but the idea is to look for the context of each repetition. And in my opinion, if there really are no differences, it's better to use a longer string of page refs than to divide them in a way that might be misleading. Good luck! Do Mi .