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Another relatively good TOC & Index generating tool is Sonar Bookends 2.0,
by Virginia Systems, Inc.
When creating a TOC, it looks for whatever style you assign. You do,
however, need to create and maintain a word list to generate an index. Nice
thing about that is you can maintain just one list for all of your unique
documents, and Bookends just lists the "hits."
At least on the Windows side, it works for QuarkXPress, FrameMaker,
PageMaker, WordPerfect, MS Works, MS Word, and Ami Pro. It's relatively
cheap ($100) and easy to use.
My $.02 worth.
Regards,
David Manney
Technical Writer
Babson Bros. Co.
dmanney -at- babson-bros -dot- com
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the art of knowing what to overlook."
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