Hi all. I have received a request from a client, late in a huge book project, to generate an index with all of the names of people that are mentioned in the book. We have been supplied with a list of names and the client thinks that we can just "press a button" to compile the index. This is not the case of course, but the client insists that it should be done.
What I am looking for is a way to locate a name in the document, find out the page number and then create an index looking like this: Adams, Douglas 42 Bradbury, Ray 451 Dumas, Alexandre 20, 45 etc. I am fairly experienced Framemaker user but I can not come up with a way of doing this without inserting (Author) markers for every instance where one of the listed names occur in the text. This would be hundreds of places, and we would have to view each page manually. I have tried my best to come up with some (semi)automated way of achieving this but the only thing I can think of would be to save the document as mif and write some sort of script that parses the text file inserting marker elements where it finds any of the listed names. Probably time consuming, and highly unsafe or at least unpredictable. My question to all you experts is if there is any way to get this done using Framemaker itself, or a plug-in for Framemaker, or using any other tool you might think of. For this project we use Framemaker 7.2. Thanks for any input, Bj?rn Mattsson Sweden
