-----Original Message----- From: Frank Stearns [mailto:fra...@fsatools.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:29 AM To: Murray Moore Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Phantom index entries
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Murray Moore wrote: > FM 6.0p405 > XP Pro Version 2002 Service Pack 2 > > In my book's index, page numbers are appearing under the Symbols > heading; 16, 18, 24, etc. > > I traced each of these numbers to its source index marker, e.g. one of > the page numbers under the Symbols heading, 34, is the A Year Ago This > Month button heading on page 34. > > On page 34 I deleted and recreated the index marker. But when I updated > the book and the index, 34 continues to display under Symbols. > > On page 34 I deleted the index marker. I updated the book and the index. > Not only does 16 continue to display under Symbols, but A Year Ago This > Month 34 continues to display under the A heading. > > Our IT Dept. head suggested I might have exceeded the maximum size for a > FM file. I do not think so because I have produced thicker books. Were the source files perhaps originally created in MS word? We've seen such markers sourced in word as having a leading and trailing char 020 -- it's a non-printing char, but one that FM sees when the index is generated (and thus the entry under "Symbols"). About the only way to check (and fix) is to save the doc as MIF, search for the text of the affected markers, then check the MIF statements of each affected marker for numerical character values that don't belong. Delete them (careful not to break the structure of the MIF -- check to see what a good marker looks like if you're not sure), save the MIF doc, reload into FM to convert back to FM binary form (overwrite the original FM file), and regen your index. The problem should then be gone. Hope that helps. Frank Stearns Associates | makers of IXgen(tm) for FrameMaker(r) franks at fsatools.com <mailto:franks at fsatools.com> TOLL FREE Voice (USA and Canada): 800-567-6421 USA Voice: 360-892-3970 USA FAX: 360-253-1498 http://www.fsatools.com Thank you, Frank. The situation that I describe is a FM book being updated to match the current version of the software. Screen shots are updated, and a bit of text added. No Word files were imported. Besides, I have been importing Word files and saving as text since mid-1999 and I have not seen this situation until now. /\/\ Murray