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 (from the book level), which adds regular Index markers for each entry you created.
I've used it on several books, and it works great. I'm only a satisfied customer, who started using the tool when I wanted to put variables in index entries. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC Intelligent technical communication since 1993 Technical writing, help development, FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher conversions [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.techcomplus.com/ 303-450-9076 800-500-3144 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Manager, Consulting and Independent Contracting Special Interest Group Society for Technical Communication http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Hunter Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:10 AM To: 'framers@lists.frameusers.com' Subject: Indexing recommendations Hi all, I'm at the indexing stage of a 400 page book for a product I hadn't worked with for about 3 years (so no memory of what I indexed before). The manual has also been totally restructured, and many features superseded by different ones. Now I'm looking at building the index, and the 'old', manual way is probably not going to work for me too well. 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. But if I have to pay for this feature, can you all recommend a product that has the best combination of other, extra features for the price? I've so far found: http://www.fsatools.com/ - IXgen (comparatively more costly, lots of features, but would I use them all?) http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php - Leximation marker tools, less costly, but I have more trouble seeing the usefulness of some of the features http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html -Silicon Prairie index tools, cheapest, but doesn't seem to link directly into the frame marker system, does some other kind of marker? Anyway, I realize this is a regular question, so I do appreciate any time taken to send suggestions. Succinct, bulleted lists would be sufficient. Thanks, Kevin Hunter ESDI, Victoria BC _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
