Slightly OT: Where to find a good reference on building indexes?

2013-03-24 Thread Mike Wickham
If you have a copy of _The Chicago Manual of Style_ laying around, it has a whole chapter on indexing. There are also good books out there, such as _Indexing Books_ by Nancy Mulvany. Mike Wickham On 3/24/2013 6:58 PM, Theresa de Valence wrote: > I want to improve my understanding of how good in

Re: Slightly OT: Where to find a good reference on building indexes?

2013-03-24 Thread Mike Wickham
If you have a copy of _The Chicago Manual of Style_ laying around, it has a whole chapter on indexing. There are also good books out there, such as _Indexing Books_ by Nancy Mulvany. Mike Wickham On 3/24/2013 6:58 PM, Theresa de Valence wrote: I want to improve my understanding of how good ind

Slightly OT: Where to find a good reference on building indexes?

2013-03-24 Thread Theresa de Valence
Hi Framers, I'm just beginning a new project which will require building indexes (indeces) and I want to improve my understanding of how good indexes are built. What should I be looking to accomplish? Where can I find some examples of really well-done indexes? I've ordered IXGen from Frank Ste

Slightly OT: Where to find a good reference on building indexes?

2013-03-24 Thread Theresa de Valence
Hi Framers, I'm just beginning a new project which will require building indexes (indeces) and I want to improve my understanding of how good indexes are built. What should I be looking to accomplish? Where can I find some examples of really well-done indexes? I've ordered IXGen from Frank S

Re: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
If it were that simple, someone would have done it already. The hundreds or thousands of target URLs need to be defined during import based on topic names and used when converting the internal cross-references. https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/19789/converting-from-framemaker-to-confluence-

Re: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
Confluence 4's import path is supposed to be MS Word, but there are several bugs that make it unusable: cross-references are broken, numbers are converted to plain text instead of ordered lists, and each node of the TOC is sorted alphabetically. I think Atlassian is in a catch-22 as regards the te

VENDOR ANN: March 27 webinar 2PM PAC on "Topic-based Info Development"

2013-03-24 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
Topic-based Information Development March 27, 2:00 PM PACIFIC TIME Register at: adobe.ly/ZsLLS5 Topic-based, modular information development is a technique, rather than a technology. The change in writing technique from document-centric to topic-based can be a challenge for many technical writer

migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-24 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
It doesn't sound like a very complicated import. If can supply a list of URLs for the target wiki pages, you could probably have someone write you an import utility for free by posting your request on this forum: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=71.0 The Coding Snacks page is w

migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
If it were that simple, someone would have done it already. The hundreds or thousands of target URLs need to be defined during import based on topic names and used when converting the internal cross-references. https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/19789/converting-from-framemaker-to-confluence-

Re: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-24 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
It doesn't sound like a very complicated import. If can supply a list of URLs for the target wiki pages, you could probably have someone write you an import utility for free by posting your request on this forum: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=71.0 The Coding Snacks page is