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- ***************************** AIndex ********************************
- A generic, automatic indexing program for the Amiga
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- Copyright (c) LaserUp! Software, 1989
- All rights reserved
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- Shareware donation $15
- If you like and/or use this program, please send your donation to:
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- LaserUp! Software
- 889 DeHaro St.
- San Francisco, CA 94107
- (415) 826-6193
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- Almost every software review I have read recently mentions the
- inclusion or lack of inclusion of an index as the making or breaking
- feature of the manual. Manually (sic) creating an index to a long
- document is an onerous task at best, and after searching in vain for
- a public domain, generic, and easy to use program to create an index
- for our upcoming LaserUp! Draw, I wrote AIndex.
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- AIndex will automatically create an index of selected words in a
- document. It keeps track of the location of the selected words by
- chapters and/or pages of the document by inserting dot commands into
- the document.
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- Creating an index is a simple three step process:
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- 1. After writing and editing your document, mark the chapters
- and pages using the following dot commands:
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- .chap=n or .ch=n
- .page=n or .pg=n (n is any number)
- .page+ or .pg+
- ^L (control-L)
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- 2. Create a wordlist of the words or phrases in the document
- that needs to be indexed. Write one word or phrase per line using
- any text editor and save the file. Phrases can be up to 100
- characters in length. The index can be up to 500 entries long for
- this version of AIndex.
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- 3. run AIndex by typing from the CLI or Shell:
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- AIndex document_name wordlistname outputname
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- If you do not type three filenames following the program name, a
- USAGE screen will appear telling you what to do.
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- If no chapters are specified in the document then the program
- will automatically start with page 1 and increment the page number
- each time it reads ".pg+", ".page+", or ^L. If you want to specify
- a particular page number in the document, use the ".page=n" or
- ".pg=n" command. If chapters are specified using the ".chap=n" or
- ".ch=n" dot command, page numbers are reset to 1 at the beginning
- of each chapter.
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- The output file will contain the wordlist with comma separated
- page numbers for each entry. If chapters are specified, the page
- numbers are in the "chap.page" format, ie. 1.2, 6.22, etc. A
- possible future option might be to use an underscore or a dash
- instead of the period.
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- We are working on automating the creation of the wordlist by
- marking the selected words for indexing directly in the document
- using an escape sequence. Anyone sending in their $15 donation
- will receive this upgrade as soon as it is available.
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- Any comments, complaints, or suggestions are also welcome.
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- Scott Anthony
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