IXgen used to be the gold standard for manipulating FrameMaker markers, and one that I used to heartily recommend. There are two things that soured me on IXgen:
1) Upgrade prices are quite high, especially if you only use it occasionally. 2) IXgen may alter your marker contents, for example, by adding a ] to balance an opening [. This may be fine for Index markers, but may be inappropriate for other marker types. For example, if you use IXgen with TimeSavers, you will not want anything added to your Hypertext markers. Many TimeSavers Hypertext markers have a [ in them that should not be balanced. IXgen should have a setting to prevent modification of your marker content, but it doesn't. For these reasons, I hesitate to recommend IXgen to my clients. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Hi all, I'm at the indexing stage of a 400 page book for a product I hadn't worked with for about 3 years (so no memory of what I indexed before). The manual has also been totally restructured, and many features superseded by different ones. Now I'm looking at building the index, and the 'old', manual way is probably not going to work for me too well. The minimum I'd like is to see index entries inline. Anything extra is gravy, but I'm not convinced I do need much extra, so if I can see and work with entries inline (a View option?) for cheap/free, I'd start there. But if I have to pay for this feature, can you all recommend a product that has the best combination of other, extra features for the price? I've so far found: http://www.fsatools.com/ - IXgen (comparatively more costly, lots of features, but would I use them all?) http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php - Leximation marker tools, less costly, but I have more trouble seeing the usefulness of some of the features http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html -Silicon Prairie index tools, cheapest, but doesn't seem to link directly into the frame marker system, does some other kind of marker? Anyway, I realize this is a regular question, so I do appreciate any time taken to send suggestions. Succinct, bulleted lists would be sufficient. Thanks, Kevin Hunter ESDI, Victoria BC
