RE: How to automatically import index and cross-reference entries from Word 7 to FM 7.2 or 8?
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Lynne A. Price wrote: snips 3) Generate a list of markers with Special List Of You can also use a tool such as IXgen to see multiple piled up markers, either as a separate list or expanded into the body text. For more information please see www.fsatools.com Frank Stearns Associates | makers of IXgen(tm) for FrameMaker(r) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TOLL FREE Voice (USA and Canada): 800-567-6421 USA Voice: 360-892-3970 USA FAX: 360-253-1498 http://www.fsatools.com ___ 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.
RE: How to automatically import index and cross-reference entries from Word 7 to FM 7.2 or 8?
You don't have to do anything. FM will pick them up.
The Xrefs are no problem at all. They will be either of these Xref formats:
Imported Format PageNum, Xref$pagenum
Imported Format ParaText, Xref$paratext
The index entries are a problem, but the solution is easy.
For every index entry in the Word document, FM creates a separate Index marker.
That's fine. But when it puts the markers in the FM file, it stacks them one on
top of the other instead one after the other. As a result, when you view text
symbols in FM, you see only one marker character. When you select it, you can
select only the marker that's on top of the stack; finding and editing the
markers under the top marker is a chore.
For instance, suppose the Word doc has two index terms in a paragraph: {XE
evaluation versions} {XE versions, evaluation}. FM would make two Index
markers and stack them on one top of the other. You could select only the first
entry's marker character when you viewed text symbols.
The only way to find a particular marker in a stack of markers is to search for
the marker text, if you know it, or locate the term in the index file and jump
to it.
My solution was to combine the stacked markers in the MIF file. It goes fairly
quickly. The stacked markers appear next to each other in the MIF code and can
be edited. For instance, this is the code for two stacked markers:
Marker
MType 2
MTypeName `Index'
MText `evaluation versions'
MCurrPage `1'
Unique 998679
# end of Marker
Marker
MType 2
MTypeName `Index'
MText `versions: evaluation'
MCurrPage `1'
Unique 998680
# end of Marker
It can be edited to this:
Marker
MType 2
MTypeName `Index'
MText `evaluation versions; versions: evaluation'
MCurrPage `1'
Unique 998679
# end of Marker
The result is a single Index marker in the FM that combines the two entries,
making them much easier to find and edit.
The index plugins that one can use with FM address this problem, but my clients
haven't wanted to use the plugins, so I improvised the MIF solution.
= Mike Bradley
www.techpubs.com
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Re: How to automatically import index and cross-reference entries from Word 7 to FM 7.2 or 8?
If you choose Create Hypertext Linksin the Index dialog box, you can
isolate an index marker from its clustered buddies by
Ctrl+Alt+Clicking on an index entry. This highlights the entry's
marker; the marker text appears in the Marker window. Or Find Marker
Type Index, then Find Next.
Mike, thanks for the detailed MIF solution.
If your clients objected to plugins because of cost, you can manage
marker text efficiently with the free MarkerWorker plug-in from
Cudspan (search Google for markerworker.)
Regards,
Peter
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Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Mike Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You don't have to do anything. FM will pick them up.
The Xrefs are no problem at all. They will be either of these Xref formats:
Imported Format PageNum, Xref$pagenum
Imported Format ParaText, Xref$paratext
The index entries are a problem, but the solution is easy.
For every index entry in the Word document, FM creates a separate Index
marker.
That's fine. But when it puts the markers in the FM file, it stacks them one
on
top of the other instead one after the other. As a result, when you view text
symbols in FM, you see only one marker character. When you select it, you can
select only the marker that's on top of the stack; finding and editing the
markers under the top marker is a chore.
For instance, suppose the Word doc has two index terms in a paragraph: {XE
evaluation versions} {XE versions, evaluation}. FM would make two Index
and stack them on one top of the other. You could select only the first
entry's marker character when you viewed text symbols.
The only way to find a particular marker in a stack of markers is to search
for
the marker text, if you know it, or locate the term in the index file and jump
to it.
My solution was to combine the stacked markers in the MIF file. It goes fairly
quickly. The stacked markers appear next to each other in the MIF code and can
be edited. For instance, this is the code for two stacked markers:
Marker
MType 2
MTypeName `Index'
MText `evaluation versions'
MCurrPage `1'
Unique 998679
# end of Marker
Marker
MType 2
MTypeName `Index'
MText `versions: evaluation'
MCurrPage `1'
Unique 998680
# end of Marker
It can be edited to this:
Marker
MType 2
MTypeName `Index'
MText `evaluation versions; versions: evaluation'
MCurrPage `1'
Unique 998679
# end of Marker
The result is a single Index marker in the FM that combines the two entries,
making them much easier to find and edit.
The index plugins that one can use with FM address this problem, but my
clients
haven't wanted to use the plugins, so I improvised the MIF solution.
= Mike Bradley
www.techpubs.com
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