On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 02:17, Dave Pawson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 15:07:51 -0600 > Tom Browder <[email protected]> wrote: ... >> wheel: does anyone have any pointers to any auto-indexing tools for ... > Sorry Tom, IMHO it is a long and boring job best suited for a human. > Think of a couple of the terms you might want to index, then search for > them. In a fair sized document it is amazing how often they crop up in > 'the wrong' place. > I guess it depends on the quality of the index you want to create.
Bummer. But I have extracted a text list line by line from the file, Then I'm going to pare the list down to reasonable words and phrases, then use a Perl script to go line by lines through all docs and surround each found word or phrase by a suitable index tag set. > I found the best support is from a good macro. Highlight the word/phrase > then use one of a couple of macros to insert primary/secondary term > markup. Emacs is great for this kind of job Yep, a winner: I use xemacs and already have the primary macro. Thanks, Dave. -Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
