I'm using 2.0 Pubs Ed. I'm working on a Glindex, a combination glossary and index. Each chapter has a vocabulary section. Each paragraph in the section is a...
If the entire heading ends with a period, then that would explain what you are observing. CINDEX matches using the maximal pattern not minimal. So it doesn't...
... are ... with the ... last period ... heading ... Each paragraph has potentially more than one sentence, hence potentially multiple periods. Removing all...
How about temporarily replacing the periods with something else, doing the bold change, then changing the not-periods back to periods...? DP ... [Non-text...
One could try saving the index as a DAT or even ARC file and then using a modern text editor which has regular-expression search and replace including minimal-...
... I expect I'd get the same result. The change won't stop at the first delimiter, no matter what character I use. As you can see by Dave Ream's posting,...
... modern ... minimal- ... have ... I have Kedit, which allows me to specify how many occurrences on each line I want changed, but I don't know if it accepts...
Not necessarily. Some text editors let you specify minimal v. maximal pattern matching. The text editor I use and like is CodeWright. It assumes minimal...
... pattern ... which is ... I meant "No way to do it in native Cindex." I'm probably not going to get and learn a new text editor to make one global change in...
Richard, If I'm understanding the problem correctly, the way to do it might be to use regular expressions like this (I'm not very familiar with Cindex yet so I...
... use ... The problem is that it doesn't STOP at the first period, it stops at the last. Because each entry is an entire paragraph, there are potentially ...
I think I have a solution (and if this doesn't work, an alternate). FIND: ^?*. [A-Z] REPLACE WITH: \& (applying bold) Then you have to unbold the period,...
... I just finished making the changes semi-manually: Ctrt + Shift + Right Arrow selects a word at a time. When I have all the words selected, Ctrl + B bolds...
Cindex macro. I can't tell you details because my Cindex for Mac does not have macros. Scott ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... All Cindex macros do is record keystrokes and mouse clicks. I'm not aware of any intelligence that can step through a string and stop at a certain ...
Anybody working on this beautiful Sunday? I need to remove italics from some locators. I find all the records with italicized locators fine. When I go to...
... italicized ... Selectively how? Can you give an example? I'm not sure I understand your REPLACE pattern. It seems to say: Any locator beginning with the...
I have a book in for Harvard that needs the subheads sorted by page number order. What changes in the sort routine do I need to make to make this work. Sandi...
Have you searched Help? Sorting entries: Use the Sort panel (Tools menu) to specify how Cindex should sort records and locators. When Cindex sorts records, it...
Hi Sandi With your index open, go to: Tools > Sort > Fields > Order then drag + Page so it's directly under + Main and "voila" when you click "OK" you should ...
Be sure to have only one locator (or range of locators) per record. You can do that with "expand" the index. ... -- Paula Presley Paula Presley Editorial...
I'm creating my first index exercises for a class. With SKY, a header of "Index" was automatically created when I printed the index. With Cindex, I've followed...
The procedure you describe will work in Cindex if you *print* the file. What I do, if the client wants "Index" at the top of the first page in the RTF file, is...
OK, after doing the first batch of proofs manually, one record at a time, I found a way to do this globally. Using the example shown below as a model: The...
I've been spending some time today just experimenting with how Cindex works and seeing how I can set various options to remain the way I want them, and so...
Not sure about the freezing up, that's not a problem I've experienced. I'm also using Windows XP, with all the updates. What version of Cindex are you...
Margaret, I've been using Cindex (in its various iterations) for 10 years. I haven't had the freezing problem (altho other programs have frozen on me in...
Hi,I'm using the student demo version that you get for the class. If this keeps happening, I think I'll contact their technical support. Before I had this...
I need to add a volume number to all my page references. When I follow the instructions on page 240 of the manual for Cindex 2.0, the volume number appears...
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