Indexing a book of books?

[Baruch Brodersen]

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Best,
Baruch


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Harding, Daniel B <dharding at illinois.edu>wrote:

>  For the first time I’m needing to have “books within a book” and I’m
> having a bit of a logical disconnect. What we ultimately want is 3 separate
> books with a single index that spans all 3 voumes.****
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> We want to differentiate the volumes in the master index such that all
> entries from the first volume are preceded by “A-“, the second by “B-“, and
> “C-“ for the third.****
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> I’ve set up a .book for each volume, containing the chapters for each
> sub-book. Then I’ve created a master .book file that has in it the three
> .book files, along with a generated index file at that master book level.*
> ***
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> I’ve set the page numbering for all files to “Read from file”.****
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> I’ve gone in and edited the <$volnum> variable in each of the individual
> .fm files and made them A, B, and C. Then on the reference page of the
> master index file, I edited the IndexIX entry to read
> <$autorange><$volnum>-<$pagenum> assuming that it would pull the volume
> number of the .fm file being read.****
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> Apparently this isn’t the way to go about it, as it’s not working. I just
> get 1-xx for all page numbers.****
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> Thanks in advance.****
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> *-Dan*****
>
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