(#indexing continued)

Ultimately, this example is really focused on one thing: Providing cross-references in the index, so that someone looking for a country in the setting can look under “Countries” to find the name they’re looking for, then go find that name as a main entry in the index, and look for whatever was relevant under that.

(#LibreOffice continued)

Where LibreOffice Writer failed me was in its #indexing. The program does provide index capabilities, but they are really focused on single-term values. By that I mean that it’s easy enough to set up a single index entry for, say, the “Country Name” in my example above, but managing the “children” elements — the “City Name” and “Organization Name” in that example is… painful.

A major consideration for me was #indexing. Given the structure of what I’m working on, I need to index various parts or my writing in fairly complicated ways. The setting I’m working on is a fantasy-genre world, and there are several setting-level elements that I had specific indexing wants/needs for. Countries and their likely or expected “children” are a good example, I think:

Countries
   Country Name, #–#

Country Name, #–#
   City Name, #
   Organization Name, #