Oh Frank, thanks for the reminder that it can work from a list of keywords. Had forgotten that one and IXgen is a fantabulous tool for lots of reason!
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Frank Stearns <franks at fsatools.com> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Kenneth C. Benson wrote: > > 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. >> > > Indeed, IXgen will do this (among many other things), but not in the > traditonal sense of a concordance (we stayed away from offering > conventional concordance building tools, because fairly bad "indexes" are > often the result). > > That said, the best IXgen tool for this particular task would be "Markers > from Keywords". > > You would set up a list of your names, what you want to put in a marker > when the name is found (by default the search string is also the marker > content -- but you can change this). You can also indicate the marker type > to use, which would be a good way to keep this list separate from your main > index entries. > > You could have IXgen do this automatically, or you could have it do the > process interactively, where you can see the context of each "find" and (a) > skip it, (b) accept it and insert the new marker, (c) modify the marker > text to be used at the particular find, or (d) select from a drop-down list > of marker string choices that has been built from your previous on-the-fly > modifications. > > IXgen is pretty slick with the marker creation process. Other creation > tools include markers from paragraph tags and markers from character tags. > > IXgen is also very good at supporting your marker editing tasks, such as > spell checking, unification of markers, making subentries, and so on. > > We invite the original poster to take a look with a fully functional demo > at www.fsatools.com. (For some reason, the original post never showed up > in our inbox.) > > Frank Stearns Associates | makers of IXgen(tm) for FrameMaker(r) > *** IXGEN 7-10 for FRAMEMAKER 10 IS HERE! *** > franks at fsatools.com <mailto:franks at fsatools.com> > TOLL FREE Voice (USA and Canada): 800-567-6421 > USA Voice: 360-892-3970 http://www.fsatools.com > > > 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 jerilynne.knight at gmail.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/jerilynne.knight%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > -- may your day be igKnighted with passionately powerful possibilities! <http://www.mylivesignature.com/> MamaRed Knight author of *Be Free: Release the Words Holding Your Dream Hostage* and the soon-to-be released *Kindness Ripples?: 52 No-Cost Ways to Ripple Kindness 'Round the World* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20121125/6cca5629/attachment.html>
