Indexing a book of books?

[Harding, Daniel B]

That did the trick, thanks!

Dan Harding
Technical Editorial Specialist
University of Illinois Tax School
339 Mumford Hall
1301 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
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From: Nakshatra Bhardwaj [mailto:nbhardwa at adobe.com]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 5:13 AM
To: Harding, Daniel B; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Indexing a book of books?

Dan,

One thing that I feel you might be doing wrong is-
      "I've gone in and edited the <$volnum> variable in each of the individual .fm files and made them A, B, and C."

Instead of editing the individual fm files in the book, you should try modifying the numbering scheme for the child book (.book) components in the master book itself. (For the book components in the master book, right-click your child book and set volume numbering for each child book-A, B and C sequentially or set the first one to A and set the others to 'Continue numbering from previous file in book'). This should get you the desired master index.
By design, numbering variables in hierarchical books are meant to be pushed from top to bottom(master book to child books). So the variables from the master book override and percolate down to the child books in the hierarchical book workflows.

Regards,
Nakshatra
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]<mailto:[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]> On Behalf Of Harding, Daniel B
Sent: 20 January 2012 21:15
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Subject: RE: Indexing a book of books?


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]<mailto:[mailto:baruch at technitext.com]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:00 PM
To: Harding, Daniel B
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto: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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