From: SMTP%"LISTSERV@BINGVMB.cc.binghamton.edu" 7-JAN-1996 13:57:31.15 To: CIRJA02 CC: Subj: File: "INDEX-L LOG9512D" Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 08:11:15 +0000 From: BITNET list server at BINGVMB (1.8a) Subject: File: "INDEX-L LOG9512D" To: CIRJA02@GSVMS1.CC.GASOU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 04:28:01 EST Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Colin Izat <100265.2771@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: UK Indexers As an indexer based in Scotland I am interested in finding out who else from the UK lurks on Index-L. I occasionally have to refer work to other indexers and always think it is better if I have some personal contacts rather than just sending the publisher/company to the Society of Indexers. Living in the north-east with a young family it is not always easy to travel to SI events (you know how it is!) and therefore use the internet to stay in touch with similar forms of life! If you are interested in establishing contact you can mail me directly. I look forward to hearing from you. Katie Izat ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 09:12:01 -0500 Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: PilarW@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Disability Insurance? Carol (and other interested parties), I got my disability insurance plan through Mutual of Omaha, via my membership in STC (Society for Technical Communication). My agent also assures me that should I ever not renew my membership in STC, there are other professional groups which have similar deals with Mutual. I have also seen what the rates would be for the same plan without my STC discount, and, while they are double what I now pay, they are still affordable. As I recall, I am categorized under freelance editor/writer--the closest they had to indexing. good luck! Pilar PS: I get my health insurance via Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maryland. They have a program in Maryland called "personal comp". It's just like any other health insurance plan, but it's for individuals. The rates are very competitive I've noticed (well, except that I pay the whole thing, not just the employee side, natch). I've got my whole family on with me, and it's worth it's weight in gold. As someone else mentioned earlier, while I've upped the deductible for a lower premium, the preventive care benefits are still great, and cover all our physicals, shots, etc. even got dental and vision (critical in this line of work, eh?!). ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 10:16:50 -0500 Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Mrowland@AOL.COM Subject: Key Words is coming . . .a little late Friends, This message is from Anne Leach, editor of Key Words: "_Key Words_ will arrive late, but it will arrive! Because we were working out the details of file transfers with our new printshop, *Key Words* was a bit late in getting off the press this month. And because the storms in the east combined with the Xmas mail rush may give the Post Office a headache, there may be further delays. Please be patient." Wishing Happy Holidays to all, with many delights to keep you busy until Key Words arrives! :-) Marilyn Rowland Publications Committee, ASI board Cape Cod, MA ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 08:18:10 -0800 Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Roberta Horowitz Subject: Re: Disability Insurance? In-Reply-To: <199512221411.GAA18244@mail5> Two organizations that offer disability as well as medical insurance are American Society For Information Science (asis@cni.org) Association for Computing Machinery ASIS as an information based group would probably be the best bet for indexers as much of the work of ASIS deals with information retriveal and the use of information. Roberta Horowitz roberta@netcom.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 07:55:00 -0800 Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "Stephen E. Bach" Subject: Golden Rule health insurance >I had heard of the Golden Rule plan myself and will probably settle on it. >Have you had any bad experiences with it? It came highly recommended by >several friends. How hard is it to get procedures approved, etc? I can't really answer your questions because I haven't had occasion - I'm glad to say - to make a claim. Stephen Bach sbach@well.com ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 07:55:29 -0800 Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "Stephen E. Bach" Subject: Disability insurance agent info >> In March of 1994 I got a disability policy with an agent for New England >> Mutual Life Insurance in Charlottesville, VA. >Can you give me contact? An agent here in Raleigh, NC told me that he did >not know of any agency that would provide this. W. David Sheffield 101 East High Street Charlottesville, VA 22902 (804) 977-3336 FAX 977-3330 Stephen Bach sbach@well.com ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 09:57:49 -0600 Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "Neva J. Smith" Subject: need info about publisher Dear colleagues, If any of you have worked for Springer-Verlag, would you please send me a note privately to njsmith@bga.com? Many thanks, Neva > = - * - = < = > = - * - = < = > = - * - = < = > = - * - = < = Neva J. Smith, MLIS DataSmiths Information Services PO Box 2157 / Round Rock, TX 78680 email: njsmith@bga.com voice: (512) 244-2767 Editor, _Library Currents_ PO Box 2199 / Round Rock, TX 78680 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 13:26:35 -0600 Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Carol Roberts Subject: Re: Disability Ins >Please inquire about disability insurance from your automobile insurance >agent. Though states differ, companies marketing auto insurance in Colorado >are required to have the ability to sell disability insurance to any person >who has auto insurance with their firm. In addition, Colorado auto insurance >agents are required by regulation to verbally inform their clients of this >option. This product/service is often less expensive because it is a rider >that is pinned onto the auto insurance. Right, but if you do get it through your auto ins., *make sure* that it covers all disabilities, not just those incurred through the use of the car. Cheers, Carol Roberts, indexer and copy editor | Life is good. Carol.Roberts@mixcom.com | Milwaukee, WI | Copyright 1995. All rights reserved. ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 02:22:51 -0500 Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Jill Barrett Subject: Re: Newspaper Indexing? Janet, I just finished reading INDEXING, THE ART OF by G. Norman Knight, late pres of the Society of Indexers. In case you are interested, I thought I'd mention that a whole chapter in this book is devoted to newspaper indexing. His treatment of every topic undertaken in this work is exhaustive. I obtained the book on inter-library loan through my city library system. Jill ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 10:06:50 -0600 Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Carol Roberts Subject: HyperIndex 4.1.2 mini-review Sorry to keep you hanging on for a while, but now that I've written three indexes using HyperIndex, I feel more comfortable sharing my impressions of it with you. Two preliminary remarks: This will be a brief run-down, followed by a proper review later on in _Key Words_. I will not attempt to compare HyperIndex with Cindex or Macrex, since I have no experience with those programs, nor will I enter into the Mac/IBM debate . HyperIndex, created by Andre De Tienne, is a near-stand-alone indexing program for the Mac; that is, it uses HyperCard. I am currently using it on a Mac IIsi (20 Mhz.), running System 7.1. (more about systems and speed later). To give you a little background, before HyperIndex, I was writing indexes using MS Word 5.1a. If you've ever written indexes using word-processing software, you can imagine how ready I was to try dedicated indexing software. Main features: 1. Key in main entries and subs with locators, and cross-refs. in tab- delineated fields. 2. Apply styles to entries or locators (e.g., itals, bold) 3. Swap a main entry and its sub, for quick double-posting. 4. On-screen help. 5. Search for whole word or any string. 6. Multiple ways of locating and editing entries. 7. Control over introductory words to ignore in sorting subs. (e.g., and, of, vs.) 8. Compare two entries. 9. See a main entry and all its subs. at a glance and edit. 10. Import an index previously created in HyperIndex. 11. Export index to word-processing program. 12. Formatting control: run-in, indented, or hybrids multiple ways of handling page ranges cap or lc main entries multiple ways of handling cross-refs. multiple ways of handling footnote locators multiple ways of handling entry/locator separation (e.g., comma, colon, two spaces) 13. Enter several locators at once for a given heading. 14. Automatically ignores quote marks in sorting. 15. If entry starts with "a," "an," or "the," you get a prompt asking whether the entry is a book title. 16. You also get an alert if you enter something impossible, such as "37-3h" for a locator. 17. Auto. changes hyphen to en dash in page ranges. 18. Print out different parts/stages of the work. 19. Sort letter-by-letter or word-by-word. 20. Compare cross-refs. with their referent, checking for empties or inaccuracies. 21. Global search/replace. 22. Clairvoyance: you type in the first few letters, HyperIndex finishes-- extremely handy for making sure you type it the same way each time. HyperIndex has some other features I haven't yet had occasion to use, including sub-subentries; adding a volume number to the locator (which can be formatted 4 different ways); entering terms directly from a text-only document; and increasing or decreasing (all or a range of) page numbers. Speed/equipment: As I mentioned, HyperIndex uses HyperCard, which has never been known for its speed. I found that keying in entries went fast enough (i.e., kept pace with my typing skill); other functions, such as moving among windows, took a few seconds; still others, such as merging and sorting entries, took a half hour or longer, depending on the overall size of the index. Of course that still leaves HyperIndex at least three times as fast as writing indexes in MS Word because of all the formatting and editing functions it does automatically (especially sorting properly rather than half-ASCIIed). (Your mileage may vary.) Hints for improving speed: buy the fastest darned computer you can afford if you haven't already bought one turn off the color if you have a color monitor rebuild your desktop turn off any application you don't need turn off virtual memory or RAM Doubler (you'll need about 3 or 4 MB RAM to run HyperIndex) Tech support/manual: HyperIndex comes with a printed manual, which, unfortunately, does not have an index or a tutorial; I found it necessary initially to add index tabs for specific important functions, such as printing. OTOH, HyperIndex is user-friendly enough that after the first couple of weeks, I no longer needed the manual (remember, there's also on-screen help). Andre has been very easy to reach via e-mail and has been very prompt with, and agreeable about, tech support when I've needed it. What it can't do: Version 4.1.2 can't do multiple indexes (e.g., subject index and name index), but version 4.2 will be able to, Andre tells me. It also can't handle diacritics produced using the overstrike feature, but it can handle more typical diacritics (e.g., umlaut, acute accent, grave accent). And it can't produce superscripts or subscripts. Costs: HyperIndex sells for $50. HyperCard 2.3, if you don't already have it, can be had for about $100 from discount catalogs, but HyperIndex runs just fine on earlier versions of HyperCard (I think my HyperCard 2.1 came bundled with my computer). I heartily endorse HyperIndex. It's an elegant, efficient, and reliable indexing tool. Cheers, Carol Roberts, indexer and copy editor | Life is good. Carol.Roberts@mixcom.com | Milwaukee, WI | Copyright 1995. All rights reserved. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:35:15 -0700 Reply-To: grant@onyxgfx.com Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Grant Hogarth Organization: Onyx Graphics Corp. Subject: Re: Disability Insurance - 1 person's details A number of people have asked where I got my disability insurance. Seeing as I just got my statement today, I thought I'd post the relevant details: Company: Mutual Life of Canada Address: 227 King St. South, Waterloo, ON Canada N2J 4C5 Tel: 1-800-263-5751 (don't know if this works from the US) Policy (all values are in Can $): Death benefit = 100k Disability Income $536.00/mo. Dividend goes to reduce annual payment. Annual Payment = $267.00 Grant ===================================== Grant Hogarth, Information Developer Onyx Graphics Corp. Midvale, UT www.onyxgfx.com ftp.onyxgfx.com #include "People forget how fast you did a job -- they remember how well you did it." -- Howard W. Newton