What you want is called a concordance, and I think Ixgen will do this (http://www.fsatools.com/). Someone should confirm this. I've never used it.
Kenneth Benson Pegasus Type www.pegtype.com On 11/24/2012 2:19 PM, Bj?rn Mattsson wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as kbenson at pegtype.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kbenson%40pegtype.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
