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Dennis Hays wrote:
>
> FrameMaker's view of the world, as to indexing, is somewhat archaic. That
> the user is forced to "mark" each occurrence of a word, is quite time
> consuming and also boring. Other than Frame's ability to create "leveled'
> index categories, this indexing method is not the best.
>
There is a plug-in product for Frame I found in an STC mag called IX:gen
(?) I have not used it myself, but we have it in our office and are
expeciting to purchase it for all writers who wish to do their own
indexing. I don't know much about the features off hand, but I think it
will add back some of the ones lost in Word and WP.
Lori Smith
lasmith -at- iquest -dot- net
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