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For those who were interested in the results of my inquiry about indexing software for book-length texts: The following are standard indexing software programs: *Cindex* http://indexres.com *Sky* http://www.sky-software.com *Macrex* http://www.macrex.com/ These are used by professional indexers. Each has a free downloadable trial version so you can try them out. The full packages cost $500-700. These are said to be wonderful and produce indexes in several formats (including RTF, HTML, delimited). However, I downloaded a trial copy and can see that it is well beyond my capabilities and not at all "automatic"~! Someone said that Microsoft Word can produce an index, but others said that software with "indexing" capability usually produces only an alphabetical list of words from the text; there are no cross-references, no gathering of similar concepts under an umbrella term; no glosses explaining the difference between 2 people with the same name; no hierarchical arrangement (heading, subheading, sub-subheading). We have hired a professional indexer for our project. The rate is quite reasonable, ~ $3.50 per page. The *American Society for Indexing* website lists members who can be contracted: http://www.asindexing.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3292. Not a bad side job for librarians! Thank you all for your interest, Kathy > > > *From:* ARLIS/NA List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Katherine > Cowan > *Sent:* Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:30 AM > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Subject:* [ARLIS-L] seeking indexing software for book-length text > > > > Good morning. > Has anyone used a software application to create an index to a book-length > text? (we have a file of the text available...) I am looking for an > affordable out-of-the-package or downloadable application that can create > an index as a text file, or possibly even an html file. Please contact me > off-list with details! > > Thank you, > Kathy > > -- *Katherine Cowan ~ Senior Reference Librarian* Decker Library & Media Resources Collection Maryland Institute College of Art tel: 410-225-2714 ~ fax: 410-225-2316 [log in to unmask] ~ www.mica.edu/library ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~