Indix: index‐making for computer‐wise users

The INDIX package performs some useful functions. It is ideal for any application requiring an exhaustive enumeration, along with location information, of the separate words in a document. It might be used to generate an index for a short simple paper, or for some highly‐formalized document, such as a computer program. It might also have uses for textual criticism of literary works. But it is definitely not the professional indexer's dream of software. The claim that it can be used with “complex books” seems to this reviewer to be a healthy exaggeration. Nor does it seem able to save much indexing time. In fact it is likely to cost many indexers a great deal of time to use this package, since they will probably find they need to compile an extensive list of words that are to be excluded from the index.