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Sorry to be such a pest but now I have another question. The index I'm working on right now is in letter-by-letter sort. All looks good except the following: ...
carymary53
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Oct 2, 2007
3:09 pm
6016
Mary, It sounds like what you want is word-by-word sorting. In letter-by-letter sorting, Cindex looks at each letter, ignoring spaces, so it sees: ...
Connie Binder
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Oct 2, 2007
3:23 pm
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I agree with Connie. However, there are occasions that I force the sort to word order for selected terms in a letter-by-letter sort (required by most of my...
Carolyn Weaver
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Oct 2, 2007
3:39 pm
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Hi Mary, The Cindex sort is precisely correct. Cindex ignores articles, conjunctions and prepositions--unless you tell it to do something differently. In the...
Paula Presley
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Oct 2, 2007
5:51 pm
6019
Thanks, all, for the advice. I did check with the editor and the publishers (scholarly type) wants the strick letter-by-letter, although the editor and I...
carymary53
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Oct 3, 2007
2:26 pm
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I was asked if I can use Cindex to format the index so that it looks like this: Abel a shepherd.................................Gn.4:2.........14 why God may...
karenschmitt1946
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Oct 9, 2007
3:36 pm
6021
... I think there is no way to get Cindex to do this directly, but what I would try is to embed "XX" (or any unique string) at the end of your "Gn.4:2",...
Ed Rush
goaliegeewhiz
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Oct 9, 2007
9:47 pm
6022
Don't know what keys I hit, but the application quit unexpectedly. When I reopened it, it said that it was missorted and asked me if I wanted it to sort. I...
N a n c y G e r t h
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Oct 9, 2007
10:26 pm
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... From: "N a n c y G e r t h" <docnangee@...> To: <cindexusers@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:25 PM Subject: [cindexusers] lost...
Carolyn Weaver
weaverindexing
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Oct 9, 2007
10:29 pm
6024
Nancy-- Depending on how often your settings save automatically, you may indeed have lost some work. (Mine is set to save automatically every 10 minutes, ...
Carolyn Weaver
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Oct 9, 2007
10:34 pm
6025
... That sounds similar to a problem I have had on a couple of widely separated occasions. The crash had mangled the last record. When I tried to get going...
Ed Rush
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Oct 10, 2007
12:32 am
6026
I have four records starting with the Greek letter chi (χ), and they aren't sorting well: χ3-based Kerr switch χ2-based sampling in ... χ3-based sampling...
Ed Rush
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Oct 10, 2007
12:48 am
6027
Do you have 'evaluate numbers' selected in your sort options? Currently the numbers are being ignored in the sort. Carolyn Weaver ... From: "Ed Rush"...
Carolyn Weaver
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Oct 10, 2007
1:12 am
6028
... Much better, thank you. -*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*— Ed Rush, slapping his forehead Boise, Idaho ed@... ...
Ed Rush
goaliegeewhiz
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Oct 10, 2007
1:17 am
6029
Hi, I have mine set to save every one minute. Is there some reason why one should not have it set to the shortest time period just in case? Best, Naomi...
Naomi Linzer
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Oct 10, 2007
11:32 am
6030
In Windows, I got a proper sort by figuring out the needed order and having the hidden entry: {chia}, {chib}, {chid}, {chie}, and so on. ... -- Best, Pam Rider...
Pam Rider
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Oct 10, 2007
12:34 pm
6031
... It probably affects battery use for laptops. I would guess that every time the program saves, the hard drive does stuff that uses battery power. So when...
Carol Roberts
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Oct 10, 2007
12:47 pm
6032
... chia: a thing that grows grass for "hair" chib: probably a type of fish chid: past tense of chide chie: a type of aura We missed one: chic: stylish Cheers,...
Carol Roberts
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Oct 10, 2007
12:52 pm
6033
Probably not, with today's very fast processors. But I distinctly remember the Cindex-DOS days, when saving large files could significantly slow down response...
Carolyn Weaver
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Oct 10, 2007
2:47 pm
6034
... Hah! Thanks for that, Carol. Or, if I weren't so amused by it, I might say "chil out!" -*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*— Ed...
Ed Rush
goaliegeewhiz
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Oct 10, 2007
4:10 pm
6035
I have mine set to save every time I close the window. I don't work outside of my home, so battery power isn't an issue for me. By typing carefully I minimize...
Janyne Ste Marie
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Oct 11, 2007
1:57 pm
6036
Hmmm.m. I'm refering to the setting in preferences for 1 to 99 minutes. I'm not sure what you are referring to..."every time you close a window." Naomi...
Naomi Linzer
jnlinzer
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Oct 12, 2007
1:24 pm
6037
As I've understood Cindex for many years, it always saves the index every time we close it--there's no setting for saving only when you close a window. If you...
Paula Presley
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Oct 12, 2007
1:58 pm
6038
Yeah, there is actually. It's under "editing" in preferences. But it probably refers to the record window, not the entire document. In the upper right, it...
Carol Roberts
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Oct 12, 2007
2:24 pm
6039
Ohhhh, I thought the reference was to an entire index, not a record window. Maybe, just maybe, the always discard is if you want to make an index sort of like ...
Paula Presley
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Oct 12, 2007
2:27 pm
6040
... I think the person who posted that was talking about the whole index. I forget who it was, but she or he may be confused about what that setting does (and...
Carol Roberts
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Oct 12, 2007
2:46 pm
6041
Right you are! I "save a copy" with a number: MyGreatIndex copy1 MyGreatIndex copy2 MyGreatIndex copy3 I do tht because perhaps, on copy 2, I eliminated ...
Paula Presley
bookwoman2003
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Oct 12, 2007
2:50 pm
6042
Another little quirk of which to be aware is if you use the "Save backup copy" option and save the backup to another location with the same file name, either...
Charles
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Oct 12, 2007
4:28 pm
6043
... Better yet, do that after every chapter, plus after any large operation (e.g., range-changing) that you REALLY don't want to have to do all over again. ......
Ed Rush
goaliegeewhiz
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Oct 12, 2007
4:56 pm
6044
Aha! So maybe instead of saving MyGreatIndex, copy1 MyGreatIndex, copy2 etc. I should save as MyGreatIndex1 MyGreatIndex2 etc....
Paula Presley
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Oct 12, 2007
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