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Depending on the length of each chapter, you may just be asking too much of
the software, mighty that it is. Instead of dividing the book by chapters
to index for all letters of the alphabet, try indexing all the chapters for
small segments of the alphabet. Plan on eight segments. When you've
finished that, open the eight files you've created and then combine them by
cutting and pasting into the ninth window.
Voila! You have an index.
Richard Henderson
Archivist
Special Media Archives Services Division
National Archives and Records Administration
College Park, MD
>>> kerala.snyder@xxxxxxxx 03/20/02 05:16PM >>> Here is a challenge! Back in 1987 I used XyWrite 3+ to index a book, and it worked fine. Now I have reverted to XyWrite 4 (for DOS) in order to index another book, since MSWord will not let me force the page numbers in its files to conform with my page proofs. I have a very kind production editor who converted all those Word files to XyWrite for me, and it has been fun getting back to this elegant old program. I joined this list when I had a problem installing it to my Windows XP computer, and I found the answers in your archives. But now I have a real problem. There are 25 chapters in the book, each in a separate file, and I am using CORRECT to mark the words in each file and PRINT @ in order to create a single index across all 25 files. Right now I am experimenting with a very small list of words and just four of the files, named 15, 16, 17, and 18. I created a parent file with these four file names (they are actually a bit longer) in that order. The index that resulted was correct for files 15 and 18, but the page numbers for files 16 and 17 were each one number too high. I looked through all the formatting for those files and could find nothing wrong. Then I wondered whether there was something about being in the middle of the series, and I changed the order in the parent file to 17, 16, 15, 18. (I left 18 at the end, because the formatting for the index was there.) This time 17 and 16 were correct, but 15 and 18 were n+1 for each page given. So the third and fourth in the series were wrong this time. I ran it a third time with the original order and got the same result as the first time. Clearly it can't be the formatting in the individual files that is causing the problem, because the ones that were wrong the first time were right the second time and vice versa. But it is not the ordering in the parent file either. Can anyone figure out what is going on here? Many thanks, Kerala Kerala J. Snyder Professor Emerita of Musicology, Eastman School of Music kerala.snyder@xxxxxxxx |