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An index is an alphabetized list of words and text phrases that are important in the document as concepts or as critical elements of the subject matter of the document or as words with specialized meaning or as words reserved by the subject matter. Depending on the subject, the index item can be a single text phrase, programming languages, or it can warrant a hierarchical list, where it is itself chunked into subsidiary categories:
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Lipkin, B.S. (1999). Making an Index. In: Latex for Linux. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1462-5_28
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