Indexing front matter

[Art Campbell]

You can set the Chapnum variable for the Preface (in the book file) to
text and the value to a space.

Still need to get rid of the hyphen, but if that's manually added to
the <$chapnum>-<$pagenuum> string, it's easy to remove.

Art Campbell
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Nancy Allison <maker at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> My manuals use chapter numbering, so an index entry for page 3 of chapter 5 comes out like this:
>
> Apple pie recipe, 5-3
>
> The front matter has roman numerals with no prefixes, so a reference to Technical Support in the Preface should look like this:
>
> Technical Support, xiii
>
> However, because the Index marker set up on the Reference page assumes there is a chapter number prefix for every entry, the Technical Reference Support looks like this:
>
> 4-xiii, or 1-xiii, or 0-xiii
>
> depending on how I set the numbering property.
>
> I know I could solve the problem by moving to straight-through numbering, or by moving the Tech Support information to some other location in a regular chapter, but there are problems with both these solutions. Right now, I want to stick with figuring out how to use Frame correctly to create the entry I want, which would be
>
> Tech Support, xiii
>
> I know how to set up a new IX format in the Reference page of the Index, which would use only the <$pagenum> variable.
>
> What I can't figure out is, how do I assign that format to the Preface entry only?
>
> Thanks for all suggestions.
>
> --Nancy
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