Not too long ago, I posted a "Traveller's Wish List" of fanciful
items that we can only dream about. It was intended as satire,
but was taken seriously by Loren Wiseman. It has taken awhile
for me to digest his comments...
> The main difficulty with doing comprehensive indices or
> bibliographies or consolidations of deckplans/equipment/etc. is
> that they are obsolete almost as soon as they printed (unless we
> publish them and then never print anything else).
I don't see how this is relevant. It would never be obsolete for
the material it covered -- and there's a heck of a lot of
material out there. For instance, I still find the JTAS index by
Brian Sarver quite useful, and would not consider it obsolete.
Most Traveller refs are limping along with their own memories as
the main tool for finding particular references in the vast
amounts of material that have been written. The only relevant
questions in my mind are whether or not there is a market for such
a reference aid, and whether or not it would be worth the effort?
> > P.S.: They don't have anything on the above list available
> > do they?
> Nope. I'm looking at indexing TNE for in-office use (and if I
> ever do it I'll put it in Challenge), but there never seems to be
> any time for projects such as this...always something more
> important staring me in the face.
Interesting. Would you have to do the thing yourself? Why not
hire the job done? What would such an index be worth to you?
There are probably several TML'ers (myself included) who could
probably be induced to take on such a project, and who would do
an excellent job of it as well.
Rodge.