How to force capital letters in a generated Index?

[Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com]

2012-12-19-03T13:20Z

 

I heartily second David Artman’s recommendation, and it appears as though IXgen will do the trick.

 

Disclaimer:  <kidding>David Artman and I are not related, despite our common first name, but</kidding> I am a well-satisfied user of IXgen.

 

Dave Stamm

Information Engineer

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Artman
Sent: 2012-12-18-Tuesday 14:13
To: studio at smalbro.dk; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: How to force capital letters in a generated Index?

 

Short answer: no; there's no way to use paragraph styles to enforce initial captals. You could force all caps, as a quick hack.

 

More-relevant answer: You shouldn't do this, anyway. I feelt that indexes should use capitalizattion as driven by tthe indexed terms. So, proper nouns and such get capitalized; plain-old terms don't; and maybe your special terms (e.g., GUI elements) follow capitalization of the user interface.

 

David

	-------- Original Message --------
	Subject: How to force capital letters in a generated Index?
	From: Studio Smalbro <studio at smalbro.dk>
	Date: Tue, December 18, 2012 1:55 pm
	To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
	
	
	I am generating an Index in FrameMaker 11, but the index words have been 
	inserted in the markers with a mix of capital letters and small letters. 
	It's a big index and I would like to be able to force all words to have 
	the first character as a capital letter. Can I somehow tweak the 
	paragraph style into doing this or is there any other kind of FrameMaker 
	magic which will do the trick?
	
	regards
	Bjørn Smalbro
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