Indexing Multiple Books?

[Art Campbell]

Yes and no. Each book file is just a container for the chapters; it
doesn't actually change them. ;- )

You want to be sure to mimic the chapter-page numbering style of the
source book in the meta-book. Chapter 1 in Admin can still carry the
label Chapter 1and the following chapters will still take their
incremental numbering increase from it. And the page numbering setup
should stay the same. Only difference is you restart book-level
numbering with Chapter 1 from the Installation Guide and so on
throughout the metabook

This also makes it easier to set the book label prefix -- unless
you're already using it, you can pick up the Volume numbering
<$volnum> variable and set it to text using the string you decide to
use for each book's prefix.

Just as a BTW, the chapter numbering in the original books will still
be valid when you operate from the original book file. You're not
changing anything in THAT book; you're setting all the new properties
in an entirely separate book file that just happens to contain the
same chapters. The chapter files don't know about a particlar book's
settings if you work on them outside that book.

Art

On 8/1/06, Patrick Nolan <pnolan at opsware.com> wrote:
> Art,
>
> What I don't understand is, if I create a new book and add all the
> indexable chapters, wont these chapters lose their pagination? I.e.,
> wouldn't they get a new pagination from the new book?
>
> -Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:33 AM
> To: Patrick Nolan
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Indexing Multiple Books?
>
> I think it's in the manual somewhere, but all you need to do is create a
> meta-book that contains all the indexable chapters from your doc set
> member books. Nesting books isn't supported. Only extra step is when you
> generate the index, you'll probably need to include a prefix to ID the
> book before the page citation -- Admin 301, Install 3-14, etc.
>
> The metabook is also useful for updating / synching all formats and
> applying any other changes you want to ripple into multiple books.
>
> Art
>
> <snip>
> > In other words, they are asking for a master, multi-volume index for
> > all the books.
>

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