List of markers with additional text
Gerhard Möller
I would like to generate a list of markers (e.g. glossary) with the
pagenumber and (this is the problem) a definition added, preferrably in
a table, e.g.
+------+------+------------+
| Term | Page | Definition |
+------+------+------------+
| foo | 123 | some text. |
...
+------+------+------------+
Two questions:
(1) How to organize that in a table?
(2) How can I add the definition text? A reference of the kind
<$markertext> <$pagenum> deletes any manually added definition everytime
I refresh the file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thank you very much, Gerhard.
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Andreas Berghauer
a)table:
Put tabs (\t) between the entries (<$xxx>) on the reference pages.
After updating the indexfile transform text to table (tab as seperator).
b)definition:
no idea.
Do you use SGML?
Andreas.
"Gerhard Möller" schrieb:
Greg Pfister
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to generate a list of markers (e.g. glossary) with the
> pagenumber and (this is the problem) a definition added, preferrably in
> a table, e.g.
>
> +------+------+------------+
> | Term | Page | Definition |
> +------+------+------------+
> | foo | 123 | some text. |
> ...
> +------+------+------------+
>
> Two questions:
>
> (1) How to organize that in a table?
No idea.
> (2) How can I add the definition text? A reference of the kind
> <$markertext> <$pagenum> deletes any manually added definition everytime
> I refresh the file.
The problem is that you want two separate pieces of text: the
term, and the definition. Frame gives you only one: the
markertext. If you reorganize your list to be Page, Term,
Definition then you may be able to fool it into doing something
nearly right by including the term, a tab, and the definition in
the marker text.
If that isn't adequate, I wouldn't use the LOM generation to do
this. I'd just create a static term/page/definition table, and
put in a cross-ref for the page. That doesn't allow you to create
new terms automatically by putting markers in the body, however.
Greg Pfister
Gerhard Möller
cited author.]
In article <3A099781...@t-online.de>, Andreas.Berghauer@t-
online.de says...
> a)table:
> Put tabs (\t) between the entries (<$xxx>) on the reference pages.
> After updating the indexfile transform text to table (tab as seperator).
Nice and simple, thanks.
> b)definition:
> no idea.
>
> Do you use SGML?
Unfortunatelly not. Low on budget. ;-)
[...]
Maybe I can define two textflows, ML for the list on the left hand side
of the table (terms and page numbers) and DEF for the right hand side
with the definitions. The only problem would be to synchronize the
vertical alignment, but at least I won't forget a term...
Or I just rearrange the definition and page numbers (term, def, page)
and include the def in the marker text, as Greg suggested...
Thanks, Gerhard.
Gerhard Möller
> The problem is that you want two separate pieces of text: the
> term, and the definition. Frame gives you only one: the
> markertext. If you reorganize your list to be Page, Term,
> Definition then you may be able to fool it into doing something
> nearly right by including the term, a tab, and the definition in
> the marker text.
Yes, probably, I end up doing something like this, thank you,