I'm working on a new edition index for which I indexed the previous edition so I have both files open in one window side-by-side. I'm using keyboard commands...
Deborah Patton
dpattonindexer@...
Sep 4, 2008 6:47 pm
7399
The Beta version of 2.0 installed alongside 1.5. It made itself the default, but 1.5 was still there if you wanted to execute it explicitly. When I installed...
I installed 2.0 without it deleting 1.5. I can go back and forth between the two with no problem (but cannot have both of them open at once). I am running...
... When the last one used opens, do you get a button at the bottom of the window that says "Load set"? In Cindex for Mac, I use that button to navigate to the...
... No. On 1.5 for the PC, you just File > Open and select the new abbreviation file and it replaces whatever one was currently open. On 2.0, not so much....
... That's how the previous version of Cindex for Mac worked, too. You just clicked to open the set you wanted. When the update came out, I noticed that you...
Cindex (Macintosh) sorts subentry locators for lava flows incorrectly below (tried word by word and letter by letter). I have it set to sort roman numerals...
First question: is each page ref (either single page or page range) entered as an individual record? In draft view that would look like this: basalt buttes......
Deborah Patton
dpattonindexer@...
Sep 7, 2008 8:17 pm
7410
Thanks Patricia! I did do the trick. Tracie Ashman ... References ... Beside "See..." ... OK. That ... between the...
Each page ref is an individual record. When I delete and reenter, the new entry is sorted to the end. I tried unsorting and sorting again; it changes, but then...
... Locator Max/Min Characters: "a setting of zero implies no limitation." So a value other than zero accounts for the beeps and error message. -- Best...
Hello Y'All I have a 4-volume series, each volume starts on page 1, no problem, each book gets a separate index. The publisher is talking about also having a...
Add a ^ to the beginning of the "find" pattern. Then it will only add the volume number to the beginning of the field. (This won't work if you have multiple...
... Scott Thanks. And you're right, I tried it and it will not work when there is more than one locator in the page field. These four volumes are laid out with...
Under Document -> Page References ->Multipart references, click 'suppress repeated parts' and put a colon in the 'suppress to' block. I do this all the time...
Carolyn Thanks for your help. I tried it for combined files and here's what I got. When I only had: Vol. 1 aviation era ...airlines, 1:66, 1:124–1:128, 1:219...
Carolyn I meant to send you that long reply off-list. Feel free to write me back, if you have the time, off-list as well at either of my email addresses: ...
Is your colon bold (or not) following both roman numerals? If the colon following I is bold and following IV isn't, they probably won't be treated the same....
Got it! If the numbers are as follows: III:315-III:318 even though the second III: is suppressed, when you do the conversion it undoes the suppression. So, I...
I found the exchange with wonderful Carolyn Weaver very helpful for a future project and am putting it in my cindexusers file for permanent reference. ...
... Do you mean just trimming messages or some other editing? The list moderators periodically plea for trimming. Some people get it and some don't (and...
Hello, Here are the steps I've used to move "and" from the beginning of a subheading to the end of the subheading. I've tried a number of permutations and...
1)Back up your index first 2)Pattern to find: and& (in sub field) 3)Pattern to change: (select sub1 field) 4)FIND: ^{?*} and$ [Make sure the space is there...
Thanks very much Erin - that worked. Just a final note to future readers of this pattern exchange - to make sure that there's a space before AND after "and" in...
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