On Tuesday 05 October 2010 05:20:13 JLuc wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
Glad you found a way you liked. I don't consider TeX as frightening, just a bit tedious at times. But then I still like to shift gears :<) My Tyro package is a standalone indexing tool that uses Makeindex under the covers. It should not frighten anyone. See: http://wexfordpress.com/forindexers.html -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
