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<DIV>Hi Björn</DIV>
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<DIV>I think you could do this with search-and-replace, especially for names that aren't also words.</DIV>
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<DIV>For example, make an index marker for the name "Bradbury", then paste the marker immediately after an instance of the name Bradbury. Then copy the name + the marker. Then use search-and-replace to find all examples of "Bradbury" and replace them by pasting. That'd replace "Bradbury" with "Bradbury + marker".</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers</DIV>
<DIV>Rebecca<BR><BR>>>> Björn Mattsson<bjorn_m@bredband.net> 25/11/12 08:19 >>><BR>Hi all.<BR><BR>I have received a request from a client, late in a huge book project, to<BR>generate an index with all of the names of people that are mentioned in the<BR>book. We have been supplied with a list of names and the client thinks that<BR>we can just "press a button" to compile the index. This is not the case of<BR>course, but the client insists that it should be done.<BR><BR>What I am looking for is a way to locate a name in the document, find out<BR>the page number and then create an index looking like this:<BR><BR>Adams, Douglas 42<BR>Bradbury, Ray 451<BR>Dumas, Alexandre 20, 45<BR><BR>etc.<BR><BR>I am fairly experienced Framemaker user but I can not come up with a way of<BR>doing this without inserting (Author) markers for every instance where one<BR>of the listed names occur in the text. This would be hundreds of places, and<BR>we would have to view each page manually. <BR><BR>I have tried my best to come up with some (semi)automated way of achieving<BR>this but the only thing I can think of would be to save the document as mif<BR>and write some sort of script that parses the text file inserting marker<BR>elements where it finds any of the listed names. Probably time consuming,<BR>and highly unsafe or at least unpredictable.<BR><BR>My question to all you experts is if there is any way to get this done using<BR>Framemaker itself, or a plug-in for Framemaker, or using any other tool you<BR>might think of.<BR><BR>For this project we use Framemaker 7.2.<BR><BR>Thanks for any input,<BR>Björn Mattsson<BR>Sweden<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR><BR><BR>You are currently subscribed to framers as rebecca.officer@alliedtelesis.co.nz.<BR><BR>Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com.<BR><BR>To unsubscribe send a blank email to<BR>framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com<BR>or visit <A href="http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rebecca.officer%40alliedtelesis.co.nz">http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rebecca.officer%40alliedtelesis.co.nz</A><BR><BR>Send administrative questions to listadmin@frameusers.com. Visit<BR><A href="http://www.frameusers.com/">http://www.frameusers.com/</A> for more resources and info.<BR></DIV>
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