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- INDEX TYPE TWO: PHRASE INDEX
-
- The phrase index feature of PC─INDEX will quickly create an index
- listing the page number(s) of all phrases that you provide. You
- can use PC─INDEX to create this list for you.
-
- Creating a Phrase List:
-
- One technique for creating a complete list of phrases is to start
- with a list of all unique words used in a document and build
- phrases from them. PC─INDEX can help you do this. By using
- the Extract Single Words function and then the Spinoff Unique
- Words function, you can quickly create a complete listing of all
- words in your document and write them to a phrase file.
-
- More information on spinning off unique words is available under
- the File Menu section later in this manual.
-
- For this example we will create a short list of phrases to index.
-
- Select Edit Phrase File from the Edit menu. There are currently
- no phrases listed here.
-
- Press F3 to begin adding phrases. You should see a new window
- appear. There are three entries that you can make. Level One,
- Level Two, and Search String. There must be an entry for Level
- One and the Search String.
-
- The Search String is the actual phrase that PC─INDEX searches for
- in your document. In order for a phrase to be included in an
- index, the Search String must be entered into PC─INDEX exactly as
- it appears in the document.
-
- The Level One and Level Two entries are for headings and sub─
- headings. They control how an entry will appear in an index. A
- good example of headings and sub─headings is a name. For
- example, the name Brian BENSON would be entered:
-
- Level One Level Two Search String
- BENSON Brian Brian BENSON
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- In the final index, this entry will appear like this:
-
- BENSON, Brian 12, 13, 15
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- If there is more than one person with the same surname, (e.g.
- Brian BENSON, Courtney BENSON, and Lisa BENSON) then the final
- index would appear like this:
-
- BENSON,
- Brian 12, 13, 15
- Courtney 14, 17
- Lisa 19
-
- This same technique can be used for sub─categories within
- categories. For example, the following phrase entries:
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- Level One Level Two Search String
- Monitors Color Color Monitors
- Monitors Monochrome Monochrome Monitors
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- Would appear in the index like this:
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- Monitors,
- Color 15─19
- Monochrome 44
-
- The Search String does not have to match the Level One and Level
- Two Entries. This will give you a lot of flexibility in
- controlling the appearance of a phrase index. For example, the
- following phrase entries:
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- Level One Level Two Search String
- Soft Drinks Diet Colas Diet Pepsi
- Soft Drinks Colas Coca Cola
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- Would appear in the index like this:
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- Soft Drinks,
- Colas 14, 17
- Diet Colas 55
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- Notice that the Search Strings Coca Cola and Diet Pepsi are not
- listed anywhere in the index, but they are the strings that must
- be found in the document for the phrases to be included in the
- index.
-
- Select Edit Phrase List from the Edit List Menu and press F3 to
- begin adding the following phrases to the list:
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- Level One Level Two Search String
- Black and White monitor Black and White monitor
- Build Single Word Index Build Single Word Index
- Copyright Copyright
- Document Format Menu Document Format Menu Edit
- Edit File Edit Custom Character Set Edit Custom Character Set
- Edit File Edit Discard Word File Edit Discard Word File
- Edit File Edit Extracted Name File Edit Extracted Name File
- Edit File Edit Extracted Word File Edit Extracted Word File
- Edit Files Edit Include Word File Edit Include Word File
- Edit Files Edit Phrase File Edit Phrase File
- Edit Menu Edit Menus
- Error Messages Error Messages
- Examples Examples
- Extract Words Extract Words
- File Menu File Menu
- Help Software Help Software
- on line help on line help
- Option Menu Option Menu
- Quick Start Quick Start
- Spinoff List Spinoff List
- System Requirements System Requirements
- Word Frequency Word Frequency
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- You do not need to enter phrases in sorted order, PC─INDEX will
- sort them for you.
-
- Add more phrases if you wish, but this should be enough phrases
- to give you a good idea how this function works. Press ESCape or
- F10 again.
-
-
- STEP ONE: Extract Phrases
-
- This option will extract all phrases that you provided and record
- them in sorted order along with the page number that they occur
- on.
-
- First, select Text (ASCII) as the document type from the Document
- menu. If the wrong document type is selected, results will be
- unpredictable.
-
- Next, select the Extract Phrases option from the FILE menu. You
- should now see a new window asking you for an input filename, an
- output filename, the page size, the first page number to start
- indexing on, and the first page number to use.
-
- For the input filename type 'PCI.DOC' and press enter. For the
- output filename type 'PCI.SRT' and press enter. This document
- was created using 60 lines per page (the standard for letter size
- paper is usually 66, but to accommodate those with laser printers
- we used 60 here). We will leave this setting as it is. Next
- enter 4 for the Start Indexing on Page entry, (we want to skip
- the first 3 pages that contain the title page, the disclaimer,
- and the table of contents) and leave the First Page Number to use
- setting at 1.
-
- The completed window should look something like this:
-
- ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Input File Name: (Name of Document to process) │
- │ pci.doc │
- │ │
- │ Output File Name: │
- │ pci.srt │
- │ │
- │ Page Size Start Indexing on Page First Page Number to use │
- │ 60 4 1 │
- └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- When you have finished entering the filenames and other
- information, press F10 to begin processing 'PCI.DOC'.
-
- You should now see a window which gives you the current status
- and tells you how the processing of PCI.DOC is going. You will
- be kept informed of how many characters, lines, words, and pages
- have been processed as well as how many matches have been found.
-
- This process should only take a few seconds for PCI.DOC.
-
-
- STEP TWO: Build Phrase Index
-
- The second and final step 'Build Phrase Index' is found under the
- FILE menu. This step takes the file created by the 'Extract
- Phrases' selection and builds the final index.
-
- Select 'Build Phrase Index' from the FILE menu. You will be
- asked for the input file and output file. PC─INDEX remembers the
- name that you gave the file ('PCI.SRT') when you extracted the
- phrases. You should leave this name as it is.
-
- Next you will be asked what name you want to use for the output
- file. This is the name that the actual index will be called.
- For this example we'll call it 'PCI.NDX'.
-
- The next entry is the Wildcard Description File Name. This entry
- is only used if you are processing several files at the same
- time. We won't use it here.
-
- Next, PC─INDEX wants to know the page length (how many lines per
- page) you want to use. The default setting is 66 which is the
- proper setting for letter size paper. If you are using legal
- size paper, the proper setting would be 88. This number does not
- need to match the lines per page setting you used when you
- selected 'Extract Phrases'. Many laser printers normally output
- 60 lines per page. If you will be printing the index on a laser
- printer you will want to set this option to 60.
-
- The next item to fill in is the page width. Here you will enter
- the total number of characters that will fit on one line. The
- maximum width accepted by PC─INDEX is 132 characters. The number
- next to page width in reverse video is the calculated width
- required for the settings you have selected.
-
- Next, PC─INDEX asks you the number of columns you would like the
- output to be in. You will be able to produce an index up to four
- columns wide if your phrases are small enough. An example of a
- two column phrase index is included at the end of this document.
-
- The column width is the next entry. This entry controls the
- width of each column in the index. The minimum allowable width
- is calculated by PC─INDEX and is equal to the longest phrase that
- you entered. The maximum is 99 characters.
-
- The number of spaces between columns can range from 1 to 9
- characters.
-
- Next fill in the top, bottom, left, and right margins to the
- settings that you wish.
-
- The completed input window should look something like this:
-
- ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Input File Name: │
- │ pci.srt │
- │ │
- │ Output File Name: │
- │ pci.ndx │
- │ │
- │ Wildcard Description File: (Leave blank if not needed) │
- │ │
- │ Page Size Page Width (Columns) Number of Columns │
- │ 66 80 78 2 │
- │ Column Width Space Between Columns Top Margin │
- │ 30 3 5 │
- │ Bottom Margin Left Margin Right Margin │
- │ 5 10 5 │
- └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- When you have finished entering the filenames and other
- information, press F10 to begin processing 'PCI.SRT'.
-
- You should see a status box which tells you the number of phrases
- to be processed, the number of phrases actually processed, the
- letter of the alphabet currently being processed, percentage
- completed, and the elapsed time.
-
- This process should only take a few seconds for this example.
- When it is finished, you will be returned to the main menu and
- the completed index is contained in the text file named
- 'PCI.NDX'. If you wish to view the file you can select View
- Index from the File Menu. If you want to print the index to a
- printer select Print Index from the File Menu. Since 'PCI.NDX'
- is an ASCII file, you could also load it into almost any word
- processor and edit it further if you wish.
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