I hope everyone is taking the day off for the Labor Day holiday (in the U.S.). But in case anyone is chained to a desk as I am, perhaps someone can help with...
Dear collective wisdom I normally do as instructed and put only one page number in each record. however, I am working on a very detailed book with numerous...
Hi Elizabeth, I put more than one page reference in the Page field most of the time. The only problem you may encounter is that Cindex may separate elements...
Linda K. Fetters
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Sep 5, 2007 2:52 pm
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I find it harder to edit. You can't just delete an entire record, you have to go into it and delete locators. Takes too long. But then again I always have way...
I often do this in the date entry stage, for ease of entry. If you want to separate them (to avoid any potential disadvantages), you can always use 'expand...
A production house new client sent me a previous index as a guide to the project I am working on. The specs are pretty much the same as for previous jobs with...
Hello - I think it dates back to when computers were much slower. Simple sort was quick enough not to obstruct the user with delays in function. Regards _John...
Hahahah . . . Yes, this is probably the reason. I'm dating myself when I remember that with Cindex in DOS, I'd select "sort," and while it chugged away on the...
... Which reminds me of when I learned the importance of such progress reports. It was probably about 1979. I was creating a database program that had to...
Totally OT response .... I remember when I was learning FORTRAN (does that date me?) just for kicks I wrote a program to calculate optimum number or size of...
I go back and forth with this. Sometimes I combine all the page numbers (using Tools), and later on I might decide to separate them with "expand" (under...
Marge, So you also wrote FORTRAN program lines on Hollerith cards? We share that experience. When I was learning BASIC, the input-output device was a World...
I thought I'd seen a way to tell CINDEX to set everything so that the output would conform to a certain style, such as the CMS. But now, the only feature I...
... No, there is no prebuilt CMS style (only the Chicago rule for page refs., which you've already found). Actually, I don't see how there could be one,...
I have the paper copy of Chicago Manual, 15th ed., but for my purposes, I find that an annual subscription to the online version is so very much nicer. It may...
I have it on CD-ROM. Great for searching, not so great for browsing. ... Cheers, Carol Roberts http://www.RobertsIndexing.com http://www.ArtWanted.com/CarolR ...
I especially like the online version when I'm copyediting. When discussing style matters, I can cut-and-paste the relevant Chicago sections in an email....
When a client (most) say they follow Chicago, I respond that I interpret that to mean that I follow the format of the actual CMS index, along with the material...
Thanks, everyone. At least now I know. :) I really thought I was just missing something. I do have CMS 15th. So, I'll read it again with all your advice...
I need help from the pattern mavins. I need to end each main entry with no page locators with a period. Can anyone prove a pattern to isolate such main...
Greetings, A long-dormant journal indexing project has returned to my desk. The locator format is month year:page(s), and the sort looks first at year, then...
This problem is one that is common to all indexing programs and all database management systems. The way I see it, you are stuck with either using all four...
Maybe it's reading '20' as less than '93' etc. You might try {2000} or {999} as a prefix. Or alternatively adding {19} to the old locators might do it. Denise ...
Thanks for the suggestions on the locator sort issue. For future reference, I'll post my solution here. After re-checking the manual and reading the responses...
This feature works on some indexes and not on others, and I can't figure out why. I know that it's not a case of slight, hard-to-notice differences in entries....
There's a nice discussion of this under the Help menu ... checking/unchecking "Preserve Modified Headings" or "Protect Names," depending on your ultimate...
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