Formatting of index entries automatically

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• All words with a certain style of character is automatically possible in the index entries?

  CS4 on Mac. I have a document where each occurrence of the first use of terms important was given a character style called "first." Is there a way I could do automatically each index entry?

  Hi Mary,

  This can be done using a script by Peter Kahrel.

  See:

  Index, lists of words and concordances. Peter Kahrel

  In particular:

  InDesign: Index of character styles. Peter Kahrel

  Kind regards

  Uwe

• The formatting Index entries.

  Hi all

  Is it possible to apply with Index shaped like italics, bold entries etc. using javascript in Windows.  InDesign CS3 5.0.4.

  Kind regards

  Imagine.

  Then, as in

  bacteria

  254 Commons

  E. coli 255

  other 256

  The problem is that ID cannot store formatting information in an index entry (as it does not work in the variables for running headers and references paragraphs). You have to think about something like marking the formatting with codes in the entries, and then change them after the index generation.

  For example, mark italic [i]... [/ i] in the index entry ' bacteria: [i] [/i] e. coli. " After you generate, use a GREP search-replace to remove the codes and apply italic.

  [Ed.] Important: Add the original entry (without your codes) in the genre - as a field! Otherwise, the above example will be sorted as 'symbol' [(ou peut-être il viendra sous «i»).]

• How to format an index of several volumes with volume designation

  One of my users wants me to break up a huge manual in several smaller books. This is actually a good idea, but it should be a main index covering all topics in all volumes. I use Frame 8 (informal) and my index is generated from the embedded markers.

  I searched in Fundamentals edition Frame 7 and I see how to include the volume number in an index entry. It is possible to substitute a variable holds a designation alphabetical volume, so that my entries would look like:

  topic... UM 35

  Topic2... TM 205

  (where UM 35 & TM 205 would indicate the page 35 of the manual and page 205 of the Tech Manual, respectively)

  Thank you

  Cheryl Bowsher

  The usual way to proceed would be to set the channel controlled by the <$volnum>variable to a text value and apply it to the chapters in the book file.

  In the meta-book which contains all the chapters of textbooks, you should focus on all operating instructions component files, right click, select numbering > Volume and specify the text value of "UM." Record, and up-to-date, then repeat for the other components.

  In the Index file itself, you must include <$volnum>in the section of the reference page that formats the entries.

• How can I correct index entries that are incorrect?

  I visited Nortons support after you install Norton 2010 because it wouldn't let me open my control panel. They ran a CHKDSK on my computer and it came with

  Index entry InkObj.dll.mui in index $130 file 77 is incorrect and various other index that are incorrect.

  Norton support says that I had these problems until I could go further with Norton.

  Any ideas?

  Hello

  Have you run a chkdsk/r to repair problems? Or just the chkdsk standard to detect problems? The first to be performed from a command prompt high and, such that it will be impossible to lock the drive, have to be scheduled to run on a system reboot.

  At a high command prompt, click Start and type CMD. Right click on the menu entry that appears and choose "Run as Administrator". Click on continue in the UAC prompt. From the command line, run:

  CHKDSK c: /r

  Press and follow the instructions.

  Good luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Crazy" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

• How to display time in 010403 format if the entry is transmitted as ' 1 hour, 4 minutes, 3 seconds"sql query

  How to display time in 010403 format if the entry is transmitted as ' 1 hour, 4 minutes, 3 seconds"sql query @.

  Hello

  You can try:

  Select lpad (regexp_substr ('1 hour, 4 minutes, 3 seconds ',' [[: digit:]] + ""), 2, '0')

  || LPAD (regexp_substr ('1 hour, 4 minutes, 3 seconds ',' [[: digit:]] +', 1, 2), 2, '0')

  || LPAD (regexp_substr ('1 hour, 4 minutes, 3 seconds ',' [[: digit:]] +' 1, 3), 2, '0')

  Double;

  but this requires maximum 99 hours/minutes/seconds ago in your entry.

• Follow-up to my index entries

  If I create an index entry in my document, how can I follow this entry later to see where it is referenced? For example, I see the arrow that represents the index entry in the body of the text, but cannot see where it is in the list of references.

  Select the Index mark in your text and look at the reference in the Index panel. Page number will be highlighted.

• How can I delete an Index Entry?

  I created an index entry in Chapter 10 of my FrameMaker book and I have no idea how to do to look it up.

  Pointing out the entry in the index itself (linked photo):

  It shows me in the Pod marker:

  I'm looking for the word that I accidentally created an index entry 'the' from?

  Thanks in advance.

  Markers on top of the other may be impossible to distinguish or select individually, without insertion of some temporary wide space characters to push them out. This stacking happens usually when a heading or caption is used for two or more: TOC, IX, Xref.

  Thus, FM, go to the offending source page and click on the top left of the main text block. Open the special > marker dialogue. Make a Edit > find/replace by marker Type: Indexand [find]. That each is, its text marker will appear in the marker dialog box. Keep find until you get to the Index mark that you need to remove: press the delete key.

• List invalid index entries

  I imported MS Word documents with index entries (Cyrillic and Latin alphabetet, quotes, etc.).

  Now I want to generate indexes and I have the alert:

  "The index could not be generated.

  One or more index entries contains invalid characters.

  Please remove all invalid characters in the index entries.

  Where can I find the full list of characters which Adobe defines as invalid?

  You don't think that Preflight to verify and mark these characters?

  Thanks Jongware,

  I thoroughly have the bug.

  In Polish typography should be used in compound words , pair of characters in: conditional dash and hyphen nonbreaking to resume link on the left edge of the column. (He is Polish and Slovak rulez).

  This pair worked very well in CS2.

  (From cs3 or cs4 I don't remember) is not important to this pair of characters, just language Polish or Slovak of choice. And these hyphens are duplicated on the left edge of a column on the fly.

  But the docx file import engine still has the bug. If someone put such pair for MS Word, docx file, InDesign cs 5.5 cannot import properely in the InDesign document.

  I checked the my document idml file

  Reference topic should be Yat - Kha. In MS Word, there is [conditional and hyphen nonbreaking hyphen] Kha

  but inside the reference in idml topic file is something like this I sgned in bold:

  ReferencedTopic = "u1b3TopicnYat<?" 001f HELP? > <? 001e HELP? ' >Kha.

  I don't know what? 001f HELP? and? 001E help?

  But I know now that there are invalid characters

  That was the problem.

• How to find and replace text in the index entries?

  Hello

  Recently, I copied a manual to create a new one for another product. After a global search and replace the product names and other texts, I needed to replace a specific word that appears in the index entries.

  I noticed the search box would allow me to search the text of the marker, but I had to replaceme the word by hand - cut and paste the new Word, click on change the marker to save it and then find the next occurrence.

  It's with frame 7.2. Does anyone know a faster way to do this?

  Yours,

  Michael F.

  =========

  Peter,

  Thanks for the lead.

  I downloaded the zip file and all it contains is a DLL file, but no instructions.

  What should I do to make it work and how do I know that it works?

  Yours,

  Michael F

  ========

• Index entry contains invalid characters

  I inserted 11000 index markers in the text (laws in a book of business or great law) files, and import that they appear correctly in the index Panel. But when I want to generate the index, the dreaded message arrives:

  "The index could not be generated. One or more index entries contains invalid characters. Please remove all invalid characters from the index entries. »

  From what I've been able to collect discussions found elsewhere, this is sometimes caused by caractΦres inserted as separators etc. in the dialog box 'Generate the Index', but it's not those, I checked.

  Also, most of the entries are very similar (cases and articles) and I tried to generate an index with just a few pages of text containing the same type of entries, and then it works fine.

  Any suggestions?

  Make a copy of your document.

  Then, start cutting it upward. Remove half the story (or half of the pages). Problem still there?

  Remove the half once again? Repeat, repeat, repeat.

  Isolate the text at the origin of the problem.

  Perhaps begin by making sure it actually works with a single sentence, however.

• Find the page source for the index entries

  In ID CS4, I could Alt-Ctrl-click on the page number of an entry in my index and it would take me to the source page. This doesn't seem to work in CS5. Y at - it a keyboard shortcut that will do it, so I can check my index entries are correct?

  Click the entry in the Panel Index, to open it. This will display a list of occurrences; Select one, then click on one of the itty bitty small icons at the bottom to go (I think it's on the left).

  FM has allowed you to click directly in the generated index? Cool ID only adds hyperlinks in an exported PDF file.

• derivative of the Index entries

  I am creating an index and would like to see my index entries highlighted in the text during the indexing process. Obviously, these are non-printable. I know that I can view hidden characters and see the blue signs, but there they are so small and difficult to discern with the representation of things hidden character all.

  I thought about setting up of a temporary character style, but some of the entries already have a different character style. Can I do something with layers?

  Ideally, I would like to see a transparent yellow highlight as what you can do with the Acrobat commenting tools.

  I see two problems with your idea

  1. the position of the index mark. It may be the beginning of a Word, or at the end or somewhere in the middle. In fact, it does not matter even if its anywhere near the word, as it is on the same page!

  2. the indexed text. Suppose you have a book on cats and dogs. For the index, you can add all of the cats like 'cats' and dogs like ' canines - the word you put into the Index Entry add should not be literally in your text. '. Another example is "Indexing", which would be indexed as "index" or possibly "index, creating a".

  Now on the right thing!

  You can create a GREP style that highlights the text surrounding an index mark. GREP styles are amazing - even if they apply character Styles, they interfere with any existing character styles! They blend together perfectly. It does not totally reliable - more on that below - but the general idea is:

  a. create a new character style 'Brand of Index'. Set it to emphasize and underline options, set 12 pt thickness, offset to pt - 3 and color to something real bright.

  b. in your main paragraph for the plain text style (you 're using paragraph styles, you're not? if not, you should!), select "GREP Styles.

  c. Add a new GREP style. Define its character style 'Brand of Index' and 'Text' '~I\w+' field - it's an eye in capital letters. Do not add quotation marks.

  d. Add another style GREP. Also define its style of character 'Brand of Index' and set the "text" field "\w+~I" (again, the eye uppercase, no quotes needed).

  e. click OK. Your index entries get highlighted.

  Why is this not perfect? Well, I guess it goes beyond what the Adobe engineers have been imagine we would use GREP styles to. The index mark, tilde-capital eye, seems to mess up the text turns a little. Therefore, the usual "\w+" expected thing pick up as many "Word characters" possible suddenly fails and may be missing a few characters.

  It takes two GREP styles, rather than a ubiquitous '\w*~I\w*' because this was to pick up all the words containing an index mark, but, in reality, does not pick up anything at all.

  There is another small disadvantage: because it's true underlining, it will also print and appear in the PDF files. But it is easily resolved: print (or export to PDF, or whatever), go to the character style "Benchmark" and turn off the underline. If you need to see the markers, put it back on and hey! They - re ba - ack!

• Message popup for the top-level Index Entry Click enter subindex

  I built a CHM Help, and when I open with the index tab, and then double-click the sub containin Scripture Scriptures, I get the following message is displayed:

  To locate information on this keyword, select one of the subentries in the list.

  See a screenshot below.  The dialog box appears when I double-click on the 'Abgeischertes Signal' top-level index entry.

  

  Is it possible to translate this message?

  I use RoboHelp HTML 8.0.2.208 (from TCS2).

  I searched for the string in all the files in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 without result.

  Thank you

  Niall

  Hello

  As far as I know, it is controlled by the Help Viewer HTML, just like the legends of standard button (home, etc.).

  On my local PC, I get this message in Dutch, whereas on the VMware Server, I get this message in English. Try to view the CHM operating system on a German (or other language) and see if that helps.

  Take a bow

  Willam

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• Index entry

  Is it possible to create index with GREP and JS script entries?

  I have tags like Stephen Gray \ii{gray, Stephen} I want to convert the index entries. I know that GREP stuff but I don't know how to create the index entries - if possible.

  Jukka

  I have several scripts index in my archives, if you are interested, send me an email at [email protected] and I will send them to you as an attachment.

  Kasyan