Hello all, Stauber's Facing the Text has a Chapter 9 on "Process." It includes some inspiring discussion on managing notes to oneself while working on an...
Good questions, Julie! You just about never will need to use patterns to deal with your notes in indexes. I find when I put notes into my index I want to hide...
Deborah Patton
dpattonindexer@...
Apr 1, 2009 7:05 pm
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Or click "1-9" in the toolbar at the top of your index window. Unless that was something I added to my toolbar (there's a place in Cindex where you can drag...
Like Deborah I don't use the notes to self method much in 2.0. I've "color coded" the labels: 1 may be dumped (depending on index length) 2 must be main entry...
I typically use hidden text for notes to self, queries to the author, flags for double-posting, etc. Here are a few examples from several indexes: Harry Potter...
I do something very similar. I use hidden text and always include either two exclamation points or two question marks. I also keep a Word document open for...
Great examples, Carol. Julie, I do a lot of textbooks and often make the note "Author's key term" in the comments (notes) field of Cindex 2.0. I set up a hot...
I assume one is careful to remove the hidden text at the end, as it may have subtle effects on alphabetization and formatting. This, I expect, is the reason ...
Hi, If notes are posted at the end of the line they should not interfere with sorting. I, too, have not yet explored the new notes feature in 2.0, but will...
... I ... FWIW, I have not been able to get that feature to work. I think someone else posted a similar problem here. All I gleaned from Frances is that you...
Back when I worked in version 1.5, I usually put the note at the end of the page field. In that case, John is correct, as you could get the following in the...
... If you use hidden text correctly, you don't ever get that. For one thing, I don't use hidden text in the page field. For another, I make sure like entries...
When a note affects the sort, there is a simple fix: <{note}> as everything in the < > is hidden from sorting. Scott Scott Smiley, Ph.D., indexer of books ...
... But it still screws up a Find. If you have main entries of: {note}XYZ <{note}>XYZ XYZ And you Find all ^XYZ in Main entries, you will only find the plain...
I'm in the process of setting up a custom set of markup tags in CINDEX. I see that, in Tools>Markup Tags, I can tell it to put a certain character before or...
That's why I put my notes at the end of the heading (and also it makes autocomplete work). And on the cross ref verification, I have learned to either delete ...
From the lack of response you're seeing to these questions, you can deduce that most of us don't do either of these things. It's best to call Indexing...
Deborah Patton
dpattonindexer@...
Apr 3, 2009 1:13 pm
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This may be too complicated to explain, but here goes. I'm building a dummy index of 365 records wherein each locator is a date in the form: 2009, April 03,...
I'm using Cindex 2.latest update on XP. I have my Preferences set for the Warning for MALFORMED LOCATORS. This is the first time I've had to index footnotes in...
Ina, I'm not sure I understand what you want to do. I set up a test file to "forbid" malformed locators, and my computer did indeed "ding." The solution is not...
Paula, I wasn't clear. I want to be notified (and a "ding" is fine) when I enter a malformed locator, e.g., 67-58. I do NOT want to be notified when I enter a...
Hmmmm.... I'm doing that on 2.latest backup, with the n as you have it in the sample. I checked "forbid" for a time, and they all posted just fine. Same thing...
FYI, I'm using Cindex 2.0, which I updated 11/17/2008. I don't think there are any further updates. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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