Alphabetizing a generated list of Figures or Tables

[Pete Rourke]

Thanks Roger,

I have learned the hard way about replacing text. It took me forever to make
my standard index clean up from such mistakes.

Thanks again

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Shuttleworth, Roger [mailto:Roger_Shuttleworth at tvworks.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:31 PM
To: pete.rourke at reefpt.com; Stuart Rogers
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Alphabetizing a generated list of Figures or Tables

And another suggestion regarding getting markers into paragraphs of a
particular format (assuming you don't use IXGen):
Do a Find using the specific paragraph format. When you do Find Next, the
paragraph is selected. Then Esc,s,m will open the marker box with the text
already in it. But remember to click in the para before adding the marker,
otherwise the marker replaces the selected text! 

Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Publications
TVWorks Canada, Inc.
150 Dufferin Avenue
London, Ontario
N6A 5N6
Canada
Tel. 519 963-4368
www.tvworks.com
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Pete Rourke
Sent: January 23, 2008 4:19 PM
To: 'Stuart Rogers'
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Alphabetizing a generated list of Figures or Tables

Absolutely great advice. I'm learning new tricks.

I have gone back to putting the <$paranum> in the LOF, which is sufficient.

Thanks again
Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:05 PM
To: pete.rourke at reefpt.com
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Alphabetizing a generated list of Figures or Tables

Pete Rourke wrote:
> FM8 Windows XP
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a special marker for figures?
> 
>  
> 
> I have 2 pages of 2 col generated List of figures (screenshots) and when
> indexed are sorted in the order of the pages in the book.
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a way to have them appear alphabetically like the generated
regular
> index?
> 

Others have already replied with lots of good advice.  I'll just add 
that a work-around, if you want to sort the list you have, would be to 
convert it to a table, one cell per paragraph, and then sort the table. 
  It's a maintenance headache of course, nothing automated about it, but 
it would accomplish what you ask.

best,

-- 
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

srogers phoenix-geophysics com

If it makes things work more easily, why isn't it called lubrican?

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