Indexing a book of books?

[Harding, Daniel B]

Thanks. I had read that thread, but that doesn't tell me what I'm doing wrong with my variables, why I'm not getting the prefix on a per-volume basis in the master index.

I don't know if the method I'm attempting is wrong, the variable placement/reference is incorrect, or something else.

Anyone?

From: Baruch Brodersen [mailto:baruch at technitext.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:00 PM
To: Harding, Daniel B
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Indexing a book of books?

This thread may be of use:
http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2011-September/024037.html

Best,
Baruch

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

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.

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.

I've set the page numbering for all files to "Read from file".

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.

Apparently this isn't the way to go about it, as it's not working. I just get 1-xx for all page numbers.

Thanks in advance.

-Dan

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