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From: techwr-l-bounces+ccondo=c-cor -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com on behalf of Fred Ridder
Sent: Tue 3/20/2007 4:27 PM
To: afterwords -at- aweditorial -dot- com; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: indexing markers in FrameMaker--deleting globally
It's really easy if you have the IXgen add-on (which I highly
recommend). The procedure in that case would be:
-select the files to process (in the IXgen UI)
-generate an editable list of markers
-delete all the text from the appropriate column of the
editable list table
-reimport the editable list into files of the book
No more index markers in the files.
The editable marker list also makes it easy for you to
selectively keep some of the markers rather than taking
a scorched earth approach. And editing markers for
consistency is so much easier in a list rather than in situ
that you might decide not to do a global delete after all.
No commercial connection to IXgen--just a happy customer.
Fred Ridder
>From: Joanne Sprott <afterwords -at- aweditorial -dot- com>
>Reply-To: afterwords -at- aweditorial -dot- com
>To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>Subject: indexing markers in FrameMaker--deleting globally
>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:21:55 -0500
>
>Hi, folks, your friendly tech neighborhood indexer here.
>
>I'm working a multi-document project where I'm embedding the index
>markers in the client's FrameMaker docs. I'm afraid that most of the
>extant index markers are useless for me (no offense to all you tech
>writers out there, but most of these indexes were left unedited, so lots
>of inconsistencies exist--better to just start over), so I'd like to
>delete them all globally. Is there any way to delete all the index
>markers at once (not just the text inside them, but the markers
>themselves).
>
>So far, Help indicates that I have to go to each marker in each chapter,
>highlight it and delete it individually. This seems an extremely
>cumbersome process, so, before I give up and do it the hard way, I
>thought I'd ask.
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Joanne
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