In a message dated 10/19/2004 5:00:14 PM Mountain Standard Time, shalesller@writeme.com writes:

index items should be linked to the place in the text, and a backlink should be made as well, if at all possible

A backlink from where? And why? I think we should use links only where they are explicit or at least loudly implicit in the original work. I do understand this one. If I can click the index number in the text to take me to the index entry, I then want to click something on the index entry that will take me back to the same place in the text. Ditto footnotes and endnotes, which I now do by inserting them at the end of the appropriate paragraph and double-indenting them. Anne