Indexing

[Fluks, H.W.]

Kriton:

> > I made a new wesite, about 50 years of Dutch "Donald Duck"
> > weekly. The URL is:
> >     http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/bolderbast/xindexeng.html
> > The website is, like this invitation, bi-lingual.
> 
> Isn't this redundant? I would assume that readers of the Dutch weekly
> are able to read Dutch, thus not requiring an English version 
> of the site!

I assume that it is interesting for non-Dutch people too. I'm writing the
texts with in my mind that I would like to see similar things for foreign
Disney comics myself.
(In other words: the site is also meant for *you*.)

> > http://www2.ec-lille.fr/willot/coa/c1/add.php
> >
> > There you can index comics
> 
> This looks like the program I had once suggested writing, for those
> like me who find the database format daunting. Back then, the reaction
> I got was that the format was simplicity itself, and that 
> such a program would be unnecessary.

I still think that the website (program) is only useful for people who do an
occasional index. People who index a LOT have better tools for doing that.

> (I even got a confusing explanation of the format,
> to which someone replied with an even more confusing answer, 
> describing
> various advanced tricks and obscure points.)

Of course, if you don't explain *what* is confusing to you, we can't make
our explanations better. I don't remember exactly how my confusing
explanation looked like, but if you have a look at the webpage:
http://home.wxs.nl/~fluks4/bolderbast/xf0short.html
can you tell me what it is that confuses you so much?

(Back then, I probably should have told you to ignore the "advanced tricks
and obscure points" that others posted.)

--Harry.