Picardy book-indexing software: an appraisal for amateur indexers

Picardy software for creating, editing and formatting back-of-the-book indexes is aimed at the ‘accidental indexer’ (authors and others who might only occasionally have to prepare an index). This article provides an appraisal of the software, including features and functions, for these amateur indexers. A companion article by Walter Greulich, ‘Picardy book-indexing software: an appraisal for professional indexers’, looks more closely at the software from the perspective of users who prepare indexes as an occupation.