ANN: Heavy duty indexing

[Rick Quatro]

Hello Framers,

I just finished a big index project for a client. The index has 50 sections 
in a single FrameMaker document. Like a regular generated document, each 
entry is hyperlinked back to its source.

The text that needs to be indexed is formatted with a particular character 
tag. As the script encounters each text range, its target index section is 
identified by a regular expression. The required data, including sort 
information, for each entry is loaded into a database. Then the script does 
a series of queries on the database to build the final index.

Previously this huge index was done by hand because there was no feasible 
way to do it with multiple marker types and generated documents. I mention 
this here for those that may have labor-intensive tasks that don't have an 
easy FrameMaker solution. With FrameScript, many of these "impossible tasks" 
can be fully automated. If you need more information, please contact me 
offlist.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com