Meghan Brawley

Numbers in Indexes

The most memorable characteristic of an index is the arrangement of the entries in alphabetical order*. It makes it easy to find …

Note: This is an updated version of a post that appeared in 2016. Cross references are the instructions in an index that …

Cross references — those little notes that tell a reader to look elsewhere in the index for information — are a much-loved …

I've mentioned using PDF stamps for proofreading and index editing before. While you can import proofreading stamp sets -- …