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Subject:Re: Global indexes-new thread From:Kathleen Nosbisch <kat -at- NETWISE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 8 Dec 1993 10:34:18 MST
Shannon Ford writes:
> I wonder if anybody knows a good (i.e. automatic) way to generate global
> indexes with FrameMaker. We have approximately 12 indexed books (2000+ pages)
> from which we want to make a global index.
>
> I don't know exactly how it was done for the last documentation set, but I
> gather it was a bit of a hack. I think we made a book containing every
> chapter file in the doc set, and proceeded from there--generating the index
> over night, adding book codes in front of every page reference by hand,
> debugging, etc.
>
> We have to do this again in the next 6 months, so we are wondering if
> there isn't a better way.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?
How about setting up the initial index entries as cross references,
which will then update automatically with Frame?
kat
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