Le 04/10/2010 18:21, John Jason Jordan a ?crit : > On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:27:56 -0400 > Gregory Pittman<gregp_ky at yahoo.com> dijo: > >> On 10/04/2010 04:08 AM, JLuc wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> Is there any tool to build the index of a 400+ pages book ? >>> >>> Since scribus isnt friendly with documents that have 50+ >>> linked-text-frames pages, >>> i plan to spread the book into 12 chapter files, >>> the index will be close to the end of the last file. >> >> I'll beat John Culleton to the punch and point out that TeX has this >> built-in, but Scribus does not. >> >> Thinking about it, though, I wonder if some modification of the Find >> function might accomplish this, by searching for a particular >> Paragraph Style that might be unique various headers, then creating a >> list from that. It's not accessible from Scripter. >> >> There may be some variably complex workarounds too, which could >> benefit from having the original text done in OpenOffice. > > If I was the author of this book I can assure you that the text would > have been written in OOo. However, I can also say that during the > layout process I would have made minor editorial changes in Scribus, so > the original text is no longer 100% accurate. > > I would do the indexing this way: > > 1) Make a printout of the book from Scribus. > 2) Export the text from Scribus and open in OOo. > 3) Page through the text in OOo and make manual page breaks > wherever the pages break in the Scribus document. > 4) Use the indexing function of OOo to create the index. > 5) Place the generated OOo index into the Scribus document. > > In the past I created indexes manually from a paper copy of the > finished book, writing the index in an OOo document. The end result is > the same, but using OOo's indexing function may save a little time.
OK, Thanks for this simpler way to do it than I could think of. Using tex is a more frightening option... JLuc
