Re: master index of multiple book

[Milton, Cynthia]

I concur. In my last job I did exactly that (so engineers could find the doc 
they needed easily). The uber-book contained over 300 separate docs, and 
another 400-page big book as a sub-book. 

When you generate the index, make sure you DO NOT UPDATE ANY NUMBERING, as 
otherwise everything gets screwed up. To differentiate index entries for the 
individual docs and the big book, I added a meaningful prefix to the numbering, 
so the big book entries were H- and the individual doc entries were 
W-.

I used normal index markers from the big book and Subject markers from the 
individual docs, using the otherwise-non-functional Volume number.

/Cynthia
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Re: master index of multiple book

[Baruch Brodersen]

A combination of TimeSavers and IXGen also works well.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Fred Wersan  wrote:

> I will also echo that Bill Swallow's method is what I do. I use a utility
> called Indexing Tools Pro to set up the master book, but you can do it by
> hand.
>
> Bear in mind that if you are creating a PDF from your master index, the
> links won't go to the individual books unless you do some additional work.
> (Unless there is some brilliant way to configure things to make that work
> automatically that I am not aware of.) I use a combination of some
> framescript scripts and the TimeSavers utility to create live links from my
> master index to individual books.
>
> Fred
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RE: master index of multiple book

[Fred Wersan]

I will also echo that Bill Swallow's method is what I do. I use a 
utility called Indexing Tools Pro to set up the master book, but you can 
do it by hand.


Bear in mind that if you are creating a PDF from your master index, the 
links won't go to the individual books unless you do some additional 
work. (Unless there is some brilliant way to configure things to make 
that work automatically that I am not aware of.) I use a combination of 
some framescript scripts and the TimeSavers utility to create live links 
from my master index to individual books.


Fred

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Re: master index of multiple book

[Steve Rickaby]

At 11:10 -0400 22/9/11, Bill Swallow wrote:

>It's been years since I've done this, but I think I got around this by
>creating one large master book using all content from all other books,
>not messing with page numbering, using a variable in each consumed
>book's chapters to indicate which book it is, and then using that
>variable in my Index definition.

I echo Bill: an uber-book is the way to go. Many years ago I used this 
technique to create a hyperlinked index of a whole CD-ROM-full of manuals.

-- 
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Re: master index of multiple book

[Scott Prentice]

If you'd like an easy way to generate an "uber" book from a number of 
other books, grab our ComboBook plugin ..


   http://leximation.com/tools/info/combobook.php

It's free.

Yes .. you'll notice that it hasn't been updated for some time. If you 
need to install on FM8 or newer, send me an email off list and I'll 
point you at a manual install package.


Cheers,

...scott

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Bill Swallow wrote:

It's been years since I've done this, but I think I got around this by
creating one large master book using all content from all other books,
not messing with page numbering, using a variable in each consumed
book's chapters to indicate which book it is, and then using that
variable in my Index definition. I'd then set the numbering properties
just for my index file so it looks like it's its own document,
generate it, and then only publish that index file (with cover and
what have you). Granted, this is all from memory from many years ago,
so it might not be 100% accurate but what we did worked very well at
that time.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Johnson, Joyce wrote:
  

I am working with FrameMaker 8 and want to make a master index that includes
all index entries from a set of 10 related books. Can anyone provide
step-by-step instructions?



  

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Re: master index of multiple book

[Bill Swallow]

It's been years since I've done this, but I think I got around this by
creating one large master book using all content from all other books,
not messing with page numbering, using a variable in each consumed
book's chapters to indicate which book it is, and then using that
variable in my Index definition. I'd then set the numbering properties
just for my index file so it looks like it's its own document,
generate it, and then only publish that index file (with cover and
what have you). Granted, this is all from memory from many years ago,
so it might not be 100% accurate but what we did worked very well at
that time.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Johnson, Joyce  wrote:
> I am working with FrameMaker 8 and want to make a master index that includes
> all index entries from a set of 10 related books. Can anyone provide
> step-by-step instructions?

-- 
Bill Swallow

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RE: master index of multiple book

[Jeff Coatsworth]

Not sure if FM 8 supports master book of books functionality. That's how I 
create a master index of my 60 some odd books


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I am working with FrameMaker 8 and want to make a master index that includes 
all index entries from a set of 10 related books. Can anyone provide 
step-by-step instructions?

TIA

Joyce

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