Index search (?)

Mike Tourangeau

I am not sure if this is something that can be done or if it has ever been thought about. I recently purchased Barth's Dogmatics and there is a handy index in one of the volumes and it caused me to wonder if a tool or search tool could be made/run to pull up say "Ethics". Especially in resources that have their own data type. This could be incredible.....

What do you think?

Graham Criddle

It's a fascinating idea and could be really helpful - but I think it would be really difficult to do.

Looking at an Ethics reference at random, there is a very interesting discussion around ethical issues but no particular indicator (heading or anything else) to mark that section of text. So I think someone would need to examine the entire text alongside the index and work out exactly what the index pointed to and then tag it appropriately.

You could do it using Labels but it would be a lot of work.