On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 13:10 -0800, marbux wrote: > On 2/12/07, G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now to see if I can get the index completed so we can do it. :-) > > > > I don't know what tools you are working with. But there are tools > available specifically designed for creation of back-of-the-book-style > subject matter indexes. OOo lags in that regard. Most of the really > powerful tools are proprietary and expensive. > > However, if you already have a copy of WordPerfect, you might consider > using it to generate the index's concordance file. WordPerfect 10 and > later ship with a macro extension feature called Concord for > generating concordance files. However, I would highly recommend > instead using the original developer's scripts. > <http://www.wptoolbox.com/library/Unique.html>. As noted on the linked > page, Concord has not been updated since WordPerfect 10 and its > documentation is less than sterling. The Unique scripts do not suffer > from the same defects. > > The linked page has a good overview of the scripts' features. But in > summary, they are a set of tools for extracting unique words from a > document and manipulating them in various ways such as normalizing > capitalization and lower case instances of words. Here is the author's > introductory paragraph: > > "This macro creates an alphabetical list of all the different words > found in a document. It copies one example of each of the different > words to a second "concordance" document window which, in turn, can be > saved and used to index the main document. The macro searches body > text, and (optionally) footnotes, endnotes, headers, footers, and > graphic boxes. Other options allow for excluding minor words, numbers, > or including short phrases by marking them while the macro plays." > > When indexing a large document, it is generally far less work to > delete unwanted words from an automatically generated concordance file > than it is to manually build a concordance file from scratch one term > at a time. > > I'll echo here something I've said several times before on this list: > If any OOo scripters are looking for inspiration for new extensions, > the linked web site is a gold mine. The author is a retired gentleman > whose hobby is developing WordPerfect scripts requested by users to > solve real issues and reflect quality user feedback in their > development. All of his own scripts ("Library" tab) are heavily > commented as a teaching device and their functionality is well > summarized on the web site. He also has a large collection of useful > scripts contributed by other authors ("Other authors" tab). > > Hope this helps, >
Thanks. Very useful. However, you are assuming that I have time to do this task. Not so. How would you like to do this in addition to your other task? http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66521 Sure would appreciate it. -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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