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

[MamaRed Knight]

Oh Frank, thanks for the reminder that it can work from a list of keywords.
Had forgotten that one and IXgen is a fantabulous tool for lots of reason!

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Frank Stearns <franks at fsatools.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Kenneth C. Benson wrote:
>
>  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.
>>
>
> Indeed, IXgen will do this (among many other things), but not in the
> traditonal sense of a concordance (we stayed away from offering
> conventional concordance building tools, because fairly bad "indexes" are
> often the result).
>
> That said, the best IXgen tool for this particular task would be "Markers
> from Keywords".
>
> You would set up a list of your names, what you want to put in a marker
> when the name is found (by default the search string is also the marker
> content -- but you can change this). You can also indicate the marker type
> to use, which would be a good way to keep this list separate from your main
> index entries.
>
> You could have IXgen do this automatically, or you could have it do the
> process interactively, where you can see the context of each "find" and (a)
> skip it, (b) accept it and insert the new marker, (c) modify the marker
> text to be used at the particular find, or (d) select from a drop-down list
> of marker string choices that has been built from your previous on-the-fly
> modifications.
>
> IXgen is pretty slick with the marker creation process. Other creation
> tools include markers from paragraph tags and markers from character tags.
>
> IXgen is also very good at supporting your marker editing tasks, such as
> spell checking, unification of markers, making subentries, and so on.
>
> We invite the original poster to take a look with a fully functional demo
> at www.fsatools.com. (For some reason, the original post never showed up
> in our inbox.)
>
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>
>  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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