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Re: Indexing multiple documents

Subject: Re: Indexing multiple documents
From: "Jerry Muelver" <jerry -at- hytext -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 14:07:44 -0500



From: "Kate Wilcox"

My company wants to create a single index for all of the publications in
a document set. This includes installation guides, upgrade guides, API
guides, (all FrameMaker-generated PDFs) and Online Help systems (WebHelp
HTML generated from RoboHelp).

Each of those tools can generate an index for its own documents. Why not export each index to a common format ("text" comes to mind), and plug a search tool into the collected compiled index? The tool would generate a list of relevant index hits on a search, each hit labeled with the appropriate source document. Hot-linking the hits to the documents would take a little more effort, but it's an interesting enough programming exercise to keep a programmer busy for an afternoon.

---- Jerry Muelver
Techwriting Patterns Wiki - http://twpats.hytext.com/cgi-bin/patsauth.pl



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