Alphabetizing a generated list of Figures or Tables

[Frank Stearns]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Combs, Richard wrote:

> Pete Rourke wrote:
>
>> I started from the book add>List of > Figures using the
>> paragraph tag, Caption, but I have not figured out how to put
>> this into the reference page (like what the standard index
>> does) to do the alphabetical sorting.

snips

> You can make your own index of figures, but it's a bit of work. In each
> Caption pgf, you need to insert a marker. Either define a custom Marker
> Type for the purpose -- say, "Figure" -- or use one of the built-in
> types that you don't currently use -- say, "Subject" or "Comment." The
> Marker Text for each marker should be what you want in the index. If
> it's the complete text of the Caption pgf, just select it all and FM
> puts it in the Marker Text box of the Marker dialog. (This entire
> process could be scripted, of course.)

Or, you could use IXgen to do this in just a few moments. You can 
create markers from specific para tags, such as those used for the 
captions; and you can create markers of whatever type you wanted 
(including those you define yourself).

This would make later collection and modification very simple and 
fast.

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