Re: Problems with Indexing Tool Professional plug-in

[Marcus Streets <marcus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

greg_hamill@notes.teradyne.com wrote:
> 
> Okay, so it is shareware and I shouldn't expect too much from it, but...
> 
> Our first concept was to use ITP and IXGen as indexing tools for our
> documentation. What we discovered about ITP was that it actually changes
> the index marker within the document into a format that wouldn't work with
> subsequent steps in the publishing process. However, I intend to use its
> merging and continue capabilities.
> 
> Merging works fine - taking a single sub-entry and moving it up to the
> primary level with a comma separator. I recommend it for consistency in
> your indexes.
> 
> It seemed that the "continue" capability was the answer to one of my
> serious concerns about a very large index with primary headings covering
> several pages. However, it has a quirky feature that I would like to
> resolve. When the primary entry has one or more page reference links
> following it, the ITP continue does indeed create an additional primary
> entry with a top-of-page locator, BUT it also carries the page reference
> links as a text string with the primary entry. For example, on the bottom
> of one page
> 
> I Love Lucy 23,24,25     (all links)
>      Desi 45        (link)
>      Ethel 32  (link)
>      Fred 20        (link)
> [this is the bottom of the page]
> 
> [top of next page]
> 
> I Love Lucy 23,24,25     (text - no links)
>      Lucy 15
> 
> Has anybody else tried this and found the same problem? How are you getting
> around it? I assume we could build a FrameScript to create the continues,
> but this software appeared to have done it already.
> 
Have you looked at Rick Quattor's Framescript solution for continued
paragraphs.
I have used this for some time and am quite happy with it, although I
have tweaked it a bit, but that is the advantage of having source code.

Marcus

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