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<p><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Best,</font></font></p>
<div><font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Baruch</font></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Harding, Daniel B <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dharding@illinois.edu">dharding@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt">I’ve set the page numbering for all files to “Read from file”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt">Apparently this isn’t the way to go about it, as it’s not working. I just get 1-xx for all page numbers.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt">Thanks in advance.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Arial','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:10pt">-Dan</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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