From nball@kendaco.telebyte.com Mon Nov 1 16:15:16 1999 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA42100 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:15:12 -0800 Received: from kendaco.telebyte.com (IDENT:root@kendaco.telebyte.com [206.53.160.3]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id QAA20834 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:15:11 -0800 Received: from kendaco.telebyte.com (ct2-sil-129.telebyte.com [208.8.163.129]) by kendaco.telebyte.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01114 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:13:37 -0800 Message-ID: <381E2E09.8741C3D8@kendaco.telebyte.com> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 16:19:21 -0800 From: Nancy Ball X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: index-nw@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: What do you think? Entry logic References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would put the entire page range after a main heading on "Chernobyl accident, causes of", or even "causes of Chernobyl accident" if the whole book is about the accident, and then split down subheadings under it. That way, the reader is directed to the whole section on the topic but also has choices if the quest if specific. Nancy Ball - Nota Bene Indexing "Manke, Kristin L" wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm working on a book on the accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One > chapter discusses the accident in detail and the others deal with exposure > levels to workers, the public, societal impacts, environmental impacts, etc. I > would like to tell the reader that if they want to understand how the accident > happened, root causes, etc., they should go to Chapter 2 (pages 5-34). > > My questions are: 1) would an entry under accident, Chronobyl NPP be toooooo > broad? If so, what would be better? 2) Is the page range toooo long to be > useful? > > Thanks in advance, > Kristin Manke > Pacific NW National Laboratory -- Nancy B. Ball Nota Bene Indexing 9962 Shorty Campbell Road Kingston, WA 98346 360/297-4389 .