On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Steve Litt <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 November 2010 15:10:01 stefano franchi wrote: > > Dear Lyxers, > > > > does anyone know any script that would convert a text/tex/lyx file to a > > sorted list of words (after removal of all punctuation)? That would be > very > > helpful when creating the index, but I could not find anything with the > > usual googling techniques. Notice that I am not talking about automatic > > indexing tool. More modestly, I am looking for some sw help on generating > a > > provisional list of words to be pared down (and later inserted) manually. > > There is an old page describing the procedure I would like to follow > here: > > http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/lyx-automatic-index-generation.html. > > Unfortunately, the awk script it describes seems linked to an old > version > > of Lyx. > > > > Steve Litt describes the same technique in an old post, but he seems to > > assume it would be trivial to whip up the needed script. Not true for me, > I > > am afraid... > > > > Any help appreciated, > > > > Stefano > > Hi Stefano, > > I no longer use such scripts, because they make indexing more difficult and > lower quality, even if used just as a guide. In my last book, "Quit > Joblessness, Start Your Own Business", I indexed by putting an index start > at > the beginning of each chapter, section, or subsection, and an index end at > the > end of same. This eliminated index entries where the word just happens to > be > mentioned but isn't really important. This also eliminated me looking and > looking for occurrences of words. It also eliminated my looking for words > but > missing the phrases to which they belonged. > > Hi Steve, I appreciate the suggestion, but I don't think it would really work in my case. It seems to require a fairly strict organization with, roughly, one concept per (sub(sub))-section. I am nowhere close to that admirable standard. Cheers, S.
