Indexing: One last note

[Steve Ross <skross@nospam.lsu.edu>]

I forgot to mention that, even with fairly short page lengths, I had a
hard time getting NB4.5 to recognize the <<PG>> deltas correctly until I
stripped everything else from the file, including all style deltas. 
Since at this stage (indexing) I was concerned only with content and not
with form or appearance, I went ahead and removed everything.  Hope this
helps!

--Steve

Steve Ross wrote:
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> 
>  Roni:
> 
>  Although I have not yet made the transition to Lingua,
>  it seems that my
>  experience may be relevant to your situation because I
>  indexed my book
>  within the last couple of weeks and because you are
>  apparently
>  contemplating doing at least part of the process in
>  NB4.5.  My
>  experience was this:
>  I found that it was not necessary to set extremely long
>  page lengths (as
>  suggested in the manual);  I set mine to 100 lines per
>  page, and in the
>  end it appeared I could have done with 37 or 38, based
>  on the size of
>  the final typeset pages.
>  I didn't use Orbis for indexing individual items, but I
>  combined the
>  wordlist and the manual approaches (manual was for the
>  occasions when
>  the program would not have been able to distinguish
>  between a
>  significant and a trivial occurrence of a word; I assume
>  you could use
>  Orbis to help with that process).
>  For harmony, harmonization etc. you could probably do a
>  wild-card Orbis
>  search on harm*.  Since the final index is a regular
>  document that you
>  can edit, you could easily ensure that this appears
>  correctly in the
>  index.
>  I thought my computer had plenty of memory, but the
>  limitations on
>  indexing seem to be a feature of NB4.5.  In the end I
>  had to do
>  fragments, even though my entire book was in one
>  document, as is yours.
>  I actually found that it was not enough to split it up
>  into three or
>  four segments, and ended up doing only ten pages at a
>  time!  This meant
>  that I had 22 fragments, but when it came to combining
>  them, it went
>  very smoothly.
>  I did not try to index any foreign or non-standard
>  characters
>  automatically;  I did these as part of the manual
>  indexing stage.
> 
>  I hope this helps; feel free to write again if you have
>  more questions.
> 
>  Steve Ross
> 
>  Ron Kuzar wrote:
>  >
>  > I have never indexed a book before, and now I am about
>  to do so. I
>  > have some possibly trivial questions:
>  > 1. My book is in NBWin lingua. I understand that the
>  only way to go
>  > about it is to insert hard <<PG>> (define long pages
>  as discussed
>  > recently), strip the file of all formatting commands
>  which cannot be
>  > recognized in NBDos, and continue the process in
>  NBDos. Is that true?
>  > Or would it be better to save the file in NBWin with
>  the NB4 option?
>  > Now, once there, I have the following questions:
>  > 2. I want all the words: harmony, harmonize,
>  harmonizes, harmonized,
>  > harmonious, harmonizing under one head term, say
>  harmony. do I have
>  > to have separate entries for them in the XXX.wl file
>  and then mark
>  > the file with pause, R(eplacing) each individual entry
>  by the head
>  > term? I have experimented with this a little on a
>  fragment of my
>  > file, and discovered that I forgot harmonization.
>  wildcards would
>  > really solve the problem, but I can't find any
>  reference to them in
>  > the black NB4 manual.
>  > 3. There is some short reference there to using Orbis.
>  Can Orbis help
>  > with the above problem?
>  > 4. I understand that Lingua characters in Roman
>  alphabets are OK, in
>  > other words accented vowels will be formatted
>  correctly. But what
>  > about importing them from NBWin (Lingua)? This goes
>  back to the end
>  > of question 1 above.
>  > 5. Are all the warnings about space and time still
>  valid in current
>  > memory and hard disk space and speed? Should I use the
>  fragment
>  > method, although my book is now in one file?
>  > Any additional advice is warmly welcome.
>  > Roni
>  >
>  > =========================================
>  > Dr. Ron Kuzar
>  > Department of English Language and Literature
>  > University of Haifa
>  > IL-31905 Haifa, Israel
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> 
>  --
>  Steven K. Ross
>  Department of History
>  Louisiana State University
>  skross@nospam.lsu.edu
>  http://skross.hist.lsu.edu
> 
> 
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-- 
Steven K. Ross
Department of History
Louisiana State University
skross@nospam.lsu.edu
http://skross.hist.lsu.edu