Frame Bug in Index of Markers--disappearing index entries

[Peter Ring]

Maybe adding a sort key would help?

Kind regards
Peter Ring


Tina Ricks wrote:
> Hi all,
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> 
> I've been chasing this bug for weeks, and I just tracked down exactly what
> causes it. Has anyone seen this? Sorry for the long explanation. I'm using
> Frame 8. Maybe that's the problem.
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> I'm creating a bibliography for a legal textbook, using a custom marker type
> and the Index of Markers feature.
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> If I have two identical markers (the same work cited in two places) then in
> my index of markers file I get:
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> Duck, Donald, An Illustrated History of Disney, Disney Press (2000)..... 25,
> 106
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> (all is good so far)
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> In the actual marker, I'd type:
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> Duck, Donald, <Small Caps>An Illustrated History of Disney,<Default Para
> Font> Disney Press (2000)
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> If I have several markers with the following conditions:
> 
> --Identical first two letters (so they all alphabetize together)
> 
> --I use a character format at the beginning of the marker (for, say, the
> title of an article with no author cited)
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> Then all the markers with the identical first two letters "stack up"
> underneath the first, as if they were identical. So instead of:
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> Encarta World English Dictionary (etc.) .... 155
> 
> End of an Era? The Enron Verdict (etc.).....200
> 
> Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (etc.)...225
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> (all of these also have character formatting at the beginning of the marker,
> following the legal Blue Book citation standards)
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> I actually get:
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> Encarta World English Dictionary...... 155, 200, 225
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> When I "follow" the links for the other two page numbers back to their
> source markers, they are NOT the same as the one they stack up underneath.
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> If I take the character formatting out of the markers, it all works fine. If
> I use character formatting later on in the marker (plain text for the first
> 2-3 words, formatted after), all is fine.
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> I've spent endless amounts of time tracking this down. I've written all
> files out to mif and back. (Thanks to Frank Stearns at IXGen for that
> suggestion). I deleted all the bibliography markers and in the process of
> re-entering them, I figured this out. it has to do with character formatting
> and identical first two (or more) letters.
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> Also, for whatever it's worth, this document originated in Word, and I
> imported it into Frame.
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> Does anyone know of a workaround? Or am I stuck with no formatting in parts
> of my bibliography? Do I go back to Frame 7?
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> Tina Ricks
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> kristina.ricks at verizon.net
> 
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