Re: Indexing mystery

[Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Exactly right, Martha -- good recommendation. The Marker box remembers its 
state. If the last marker you touched was a Xref marker, an open Marker 
window switches to Xref mode until manually changed back (or until you 
touch an existing Index marker). Scan for Xref markers and check their 
contents -- a little time-consuming, but effective.

Bill Swallow's comment of missing markers is also a good one -- since most 
markers are part of the word they touch, double-clicking on a word selects 
the marker as well -- and overtyping erases the marker with the word. 
Solution -- edit with text symbols turned on.

Another frequent pilot-error indexing problem is to mistype punctuation, 
entering ; for :, etc. This has the effect of changing a sub-entry into a 
main entry or causing similar mayhem. The entry (or part of an entry) is 
moved elsewhere in the index, and odd phantom entries pop up, often in the 
Symbols section.

Check the typing in markers carefully for entries you suspect of containing 
errors. Again, time-consuming, but effective.

Good luck,

Tom Neuburger

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Martha J Davidson wrote:

>At 11:08 AM 2/28/2002 +0000, Roger Jones wrote:
>>I have just generated an index for a 20-chapter book, which is mostly in 
>>good order. However, I cannot understand why string of year dates have 
>>failed to appear in the generated index. They are there in the keyword 
>>table in the first few rows -- one per row, of course -- and they are 
>>also in the book. Ranging from 1300 to 1903, just one of the fourteen has 
>>shown up -- 1901.
>
>One of my most frequent mistakes is to create an index marker with exactly
>the syntax I want, and not notice that the marker type no longer says Index,
>but x-ref or hypertext, based on the type of the last marker I happened to
>look at. Could this be what happened to your files? Are all the markers of the
>type you expected?
>
>martha
>--
>Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson}
>Dances With Words
>mailto:editrix@nemasys.com
>
>"We must become the change we want to see in the world."
>         --Gandhi


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