RE: Re: Indexing recommendations

2006-10-04 Thread Frank Stearns
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Guy K. Haas wrote: Thanks for the elaboration, Frank. Have you considered making a configuration option for IXgen that would enable the user of such third-party tools to turn off the "[" balancing? Yes -- that is indeed the conceptual plan. Problem is, within IXgen there

Re: Indexing recommendations

2006-10-04 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Frank, First of all, let me say publicly that I have a great deal of respect for you, both professionally and personally. I admit that my comment about price is subjective and was based on competitors' prices. I concede that value is not always measured on initial cost alone. As far as ma

Re: Indexing recommendations

2006-10-04 Thread Frank Stearns
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Rick Quatro wrote: IXgen used to be the gold standard for manipulating FrameMaker markers, and one that I used to heartily recommend. There are two things that soured me on IXgen: 1) Upgrade prices are quite high, especially if you only use it occasionally. Rick, you're

Re: Indexing recommendations

2006-10-04 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Kevin: You might want to look at the freeware MarkerWorker FrameMaker plug-in from cudspan: Documentation: http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/Files/cudSpan/CudSpanDocs.pdf#search=%22markerworker%20cudspan%22 Download from: http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/cssIndex.htm HTH ___

Re: Indexing recommendations

2006-10-04 Thread Shlomo Perets
Kevin, You wrote: ... The minimum I'd like is to see index entries inline. Anything extra is gravy, but I'm not convinced I do need much extra, so if I can see and work with entries inline (a View option?) for cheap/free, I'd start there. I recommend Marker Madness from Zenserve, http://www.z

Re: Indexing recommendations

2006-10-04 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Kevin... MarkerTools is not so much of an "Indexing Solution" as it is a tool for making it easier to work with markers.One of the most useful features is the updated marker dialog that lets you select multiple markers (or all markers in a file), and browse through them without needing to s

RE: Indexing recommendations

2006-10-04 Thread Mark Southee
I've been using Emdex - http://www.emdex.ca/ and have found it does the job well. It's $100 for a single user license. Cheers Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] m] On Behalf Of Kevin Hunter Sent: 04 October 2006 16:10 To: 'framers@lists.frameusers.

Re: Indexing recommendations

2006-10-04 Thread Rick Quatro
IXgen used to be the gold standard for manipulating FrameMaker markers, and one that I used to heartily recommend. There are two things that soured me on IXgen: 1) Upgrade prices are quite high, especially if you only use it occasionally. 2) IXgen may alter your marker contents, for example,

Re: Indexing recommendations

2006-10-04 Thread Art Campbell
Be sure to look at IXGen by Frank Stearns. http://www.fsatools.com/ I believe he's still doing eval versions. Solid design, bulletproof, and as you point out, does all kinds of nice tricks. Probably cuts indexing time in half, without sacrificing quality. In addition to indexing, IXGen works with

RE: Indexing recommendations

2006-10-04 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Kevin, I've only used the Silicon Prairie plug-in, and it does use regular Index markers. You create your index entries using the tool, which creates a condition and paragraph tag. You see the index entries in your text, each in a separate paragraph, then you tell the tool to update all markers (f