Choose "Sort" from the tools menu click on the "fields" tab drag the "page" field to the top (I'm on Cindex for Mac; there may be slight differences in the...
Thanks Scott! ... Choose "Sort" from the tools menu click on the "fields" tab drag the "page" field to the top (I'm on Cindex for Mac; there may be slight ...
Hi, Thanks for help on sorting by page numbers. But now how do I get it to sort alphabetically without losing the PNO? I need to group it so that there is only...
... In the normal sorting, Cindex gathers everything with the same main entry, then within that it gathers everything with the same first subentry, and so on,...
I take it that you want to sort main headings alphbetically, and then sort only the subs in page number order. If that's right, then you want again to change...
If you want to have main entries sort alphabetically and subs to sort chronologically within each entry, do the following (I use the Mac version): 1) Sort...
Hello all Am I imagining things or did I once see that you can purchase a medical dictionary as an add on to Cindex? I am currently indexing 700 pages of human...
Being a Cindex Dinosaur, I have a copy of the medical dictionary (on floppy disk!) but don't know if they're still selling it, since it's out of date and not...
Many thanks for the replies. I have just emailed Francis so I am awaiting his reply. I have had a look at the spellex site and I may possibly go for this ...
Lynda, I purchased the dictionary last year and I've found it has its points, good and bad. Some have referred to the Cindex SpellChecker as one of the ...
The manual says Cindex accepts a wide variety of date formats when finding by date. The book says it accepts most common date formats and includes examples. I...
Can't answer your question, Dick, but I had a problem searching by dates over a two year period, from April of 2004 up to some month in 2005, say March of...
Linda K. Fetters
lfetters@...
Jul 6, 2005 5:23 pm
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I am using Cindex to index newspapers, and I am having some trouble figuring out how to sort by date of the article (not date of the entry). I can make Cindex ...
... The software being rather old now, I suspect that it saw "7/6/05" as being in 1905. -*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*— Ed Rush ...
When I had to do this I used forced sorting with a letter identifier for each month. That is, {a} for January, {b} for February, etc. Charles R. Anderson PO...
I missed some of the discussion so pardon me if someone already mentioned this but ... if you leave of the year entirely CINDEX assumes the current year. David...
Janet wrote: I am using Cindex to index newspapers, and I am having some trouble figuring out how to sort by date of the article (not date of the entry). I can...
I'm not sure about the purpose of the date/locator sort, but there are two solutions I can think of. Search for the year of interest, and when it is in a...
Linda K. Fetters
lfetters@...
Jul 10, 2005 5:59 pm
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I've noticed that the 'Ignore -/' box becomes automatically checked when I change my sort from letter-by-letter to word-by-word. This can't be right: in...
Could it be that since hyphenated compounds are counted as one word (CMS 18:58), that Cindex needs to ignore the ASCII value of the hyphen and checks this...
Hi, I am new to Cindex. I am working on the USDA course, and it wanted me to submit an index in RTF, double-spaced, with footers. I was able to set the...
My client has asked me to provide a finished index -- apparently this index is going straight to the printer. She wants me to use an 11 pt. font size. It...
Hi, I answered my own first question. I'll just change the font size in Word, easier than finding a workaround. Nevertheless, I'd like to let my second...
What program are you using to look at the saved RTF file? The easiest way to work with Cindex files in an RTF format is to use Microsoft Word (or another word...
... common thing to provide a finished, typeset index directly to the printer?<< Not usually. I try to insert myself into the typesetting process when I'm ...
Deborah Patton
dp@...
Jul 13, 2005 3:22 pm
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Hi, Deborah: Thanks for your suggestion. I will offer to proofread the index; I am worried about what the final index will look like. I suspect they don't ...
Thanks for your response, Charles. It's true that different style guides recommend different rules for the treatment of hyphenated words in a word-by-word...
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