Re: Stupid question, I'm sure...

[Allen Schaaf <soundbyte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:49 PM 5/10/02, Michael Lewis wrote:
>Allen Schaaf:
> >I am making a LOF which looks just fine except that I can not
> >get it to sort properly, or at least the way I want.
>
>Not a stupid question, by any means -- though perhaps this answer is! 
>Seems to me that a LOF is like a TOC; it lists things in page sequence. 
>What you want is more like an index (even if you want it near the front of 
>the book). I think
>you need to create custom markers for your figure titles, then use them to 
>build an "index of markers". Depending on the number of figures, creating 
>the markers will possibly be tedious (unless you automate it with 
>FrameScript or something),
>but it will give you something close to what you want.
>
>Unless I am missing something, like an adequate supply of caffeine...

Thanks, Michael, Martha, Bill, Thomas and Sue.

You know the 80/20 rule - well in tech writing I think is more like 99/1 
when it come to the software.  99% is accomplished with 1% of the potential 
functionality.

Thomas's (and Martha's) suggestion worked fine.  I just had never used that 
function in that way and it never dawned on me that a LOF COULDN'T be 
manipulated to do what I wanted.

Now all done and it was a snap with a little help from my friends....

Thanks,

Allen


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