How to generate an index of names without markers (or by automated insertion of markers)

[Kenneth C. Benson]

What you want is called a concordance, and I think Ixgen will do this 
(http://www.fsatools.com/). Someone should confirm this. I've never used it.

Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type
www.pegtype.com

On 11/24/2012 2:19 PM, Björn Mattsson wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have received a request from a client, late in a huge book project, to
> generate an index with all of the names of people that are mentioned in the
> book. We have been supplied with a list of names and the client thinks that
> we can just "press a button" to compile the index. This is not the case of
> course, but the client insists that it should be done.
>
> What I am looking for is a way to locate a name in the document, find out
> the page number and then create an index looking like this:
>
> Adams, Douglas 42
> Bradbury, Ray 451
> Dumas, Alexandre 20, 45
>
> etc.
>
> I am fairly experienced Framemaker user but I can not come up with a way of
> doing this without inserting (Author) markers for every instance where one
> of the listed names occur in the text. This would be hundreds of places, and
> we would have to view each page manually.
>
> I have tried my best to come up with some (semi)automated way of achieving
> this but the only thing I can think of would be to save the document as mif
> and write some sort of script that parses the text file inserting marker
> elements where it finds any of the listed names. Probably time consuming,
> and highly unsafe or at least unpredictable.
>
> My question to all you experts is if there is any way to get this done using
> Framemaker itself, or a plug-in for Framemaker, or using any other tool you
> might think of.
>
> For this project we use Framemaker 7.2.
>
> Thanks for any input,
> Björn Mattsson
> Sweden
>
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