Indexing front matter

[Lief Erickson]

You could use a different marker for the content in your preface, include that marker in your index, and use different page formatting for that marker. It would be a new marker type that you would create. You might call it IndexPreface or something like that.

I have done something similar with tables and figures. In my index tables and figures are formatted differently so that they are more easily identifiable as content in a table or a figure rather than in body text.

-Lief

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 2:14 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Indexing front matter

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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