How to write a good index?

[Malte Brill]

Hi Jeanne,

thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it. As I´m not a native 
speaker I wondered what makes an index an index, as we use the same 
word for table of contents. I was pretty sure that there is a 
difference and you proofed me right. When do you think an index like 
you described is needed for a tutorial? Only if it is really big or 
already if there are only a few (less than 100 A4 pages) of text?

How would one solve that problem technically in a stack?

My shot in the dark would be something like this:

1.) Have a table of contents field. (preferred scrolling list field)
      Each line of the field pointing to a card.
2.) Have search strings delimited by comma or other char after a tab.
      Tabstops set as high that the second item is not displayed in the 
field.
3.) have an input field for the search string
4.) filter lines of Toc field with "*"&tab&"*"&searchstring&"*"

Would something in these lines work?

Thanks again,

Malte