Please give me your skype id. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
