At 18:20 08/12/2014 -0600, Conly Monly Lonly wrote:
I've been working on a document that is going to need an index. I
wish to create a concordance file for this purpose. I have found the
documentation on creating an index, however, I need some help with
this documentation found in the program's help files. I did a forums
search and a wiki search and did not find the answers to my
questions. The only posts I found that included concordance
basically said to ignore the exact thing I am interested in.
The stuff I need explained with examples (images would be nice) is this:
"Alternative entry" refers to the index entry that you want to
appear in the index.
This is the text that you want to appear in the index, as distinct
from the text that you want to search for in the document. For
example, you might want to search for occurrences of "UK" in the text
but have these listed in the index against an entry reading "United
Kingdom". If you leave this empty, occurrences are listed under the
actual text searched for.
The 1st and 2nd Keys are parent index entries. The "Search term" or
the "Alternative entry" appears as a subentry under the 1st and 2nd Keys.
Indexes are not usually a simple list of entries, but have main
entries forming headings for lists of sub-entries, with possibly
further levels. You might want "United Kingdom" to appear in the
index in a list of countries, in which case your 1st key would be
"Countries" and this first key would also be used for Australia,
Canada, etc. In a more comprehensive country list, you might want
"United Kingdom" to be in a sub-list of European countries, in which
case the 1st key of "Countries" and 2nd key of "Europe" would be used
by United Kingdom as well as by France, Spain, and so on. You might
also have 2nd keys of "Americas" and "Australasia" under the same
"Countries" first key.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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