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- From: Mike_Dustan@sfu.ca (Mike Dustan)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: Re: Indexing: Is There A Better Way?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.232417.29184@sfu.ca>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 23:24:17 GMT
- References: <STEVENO.92Nov3100350@novadyne.unidata.com>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University
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- In article <STEVENO.92Nov3100350@novadyne.unidata.com> Steven J. Owens,
- steveno@unidata.com writes:
- >My department faces the task of indexing several extremely large
- documents.
- >Having indexed a 273 page and a 384 page document, I'm desperately
- looking
- >for a better method than the basic indexing process in frame. Does
- anybody
- >know of one?
-
- There's a Unix shareware program called fmixgen (or some such) which will
- take a MIF file and a list of index terms and produce a new MIF file with
- index markers everywhere those terms appear. I've used it with some
- success. It's a a bit simplistic and tends to over-index a lot, but it's
- certainly helpful for a first pass. Several Frame-aware FTP sites have
- it; sorry I can't point you to a specific site off the top of my head.
-
- The problem of indexing ranges becomes somewhat easier if you use the
- <$autorange> component in your index format. Just include it before or
- after the <$pagenum> for each index level on the reference page, and
- Frame will automatically concatenate entries from consecutive pages into
- a range-type entry. For example, "widgets 2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11" becomes
- "widgets 2-9, 10-11".
-
- Cheers
- Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
- Canada
-