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T5 Index First Draft- needs editing...

edited into first post - update to find current versions
*requirement - versioning control any sol'n easy and all can access?
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:rolleyes: Initial Document - USE FOR ERRATA FIXES (spelling, Capitalization, Inconsistent style editing)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yrb9p7xskf5y3mw/trav5 index.pdf?dl=0

:rolleyes: Header Index - active edit file (anyone can work on - just find the marker in the file and work from there *move marker when done editing*

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jj33ielbc7qxc8d/T5 Index of topics (1).docx?dl=0

:D Word Index - active edit file (Daddicus update version) http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showpost.php?p=490933&postcount=15

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1m1d1y2a962e68l/Index.txt?dl=0




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I think we may be going about this wrong. An index usually contains multi-word combinations as well as individual words.

It seems to me that we're building a glossary or dictionary.

An index should come from section headers (definition left vague on purpose).

But, I think this project still has a great deal of merit. Someone would have to write the definitions, but as a glossary, we've got a roaring good start, I think.

Comments?
 
Two styles. Word list with page numbers are a type of index called a concordance

Section titles usually build up the other index method. Doing that as well.
Found a neat tool which is making the extraction easier for me. Will post once not on a 700 km road trip. Supper break :)
 
ok.. using text extraction (PLEASE IGNORE PAGE NUMBERS!) to create this list of major titles. This is actually looks to be a good starting point for a Semantic Index

has been edited a bit - tell me if you think this is a good / better start

(requires table data to be deleted as of yet (long strings of numbers and character development tables.... ick))

*WARNING! THIS REQUIRES REMOVAL OF WORD FORMATTING AS WELL!



https://www.dropbox.com/s/hko0bnyo9aod95h/index_EDIT_THIS.rtf?dl=0
 
I think I found a bug in the code you are using to scan for words: words that cross a line-break are split into two words (one on either side of the dash character).

Any way that can be fixed? There are a ton of them; we would never make it through the list finding them one at a time.
 
I wish I could... this was using a word macro :)
It could be faster to do it by hand... is what I am afraid of (am already doing that... just tried to do it using a faster means)
 
I know how to write Word macros. I'm doing all the stuff I've already done with Excel macros, and it's the same macro language. Well, assuming it was written after 1997. :)

Unless it's proprietary or password or copyright protected?
 
converted master text it from PDF to word document. (I originally tried in PDF using PitStop Pro and Aerialist PDF - aerialist is easy but could not do it... I am sure PitStopPro could... but it broke my brain. )
used select macro on text font/pointsize/style/psuedo (bold/underline etc) - each font selected to a different style heading going from largest font pointsize to smallest
create a TOC from the results - do not select helvetica 9 non bold but do select helvetica-bold 9 and helvetica 9 (pseudo) bold (of course assumes you have all the T5 fonts in word)

Approximately 20 base fonts and between 4 and 7 sizes for each....
I consolidated some... I am at a loss as to how to improve the automatic heading selection.
 
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Daddicus said:
I know how to write Word macros. I'm doing all the stuff I've already done with Excel macros, and it's the same macro language. Well, assuming it was written after 1997. :)

Unless it's proprietary or password or copyright protected?
Click to expand...

if you saw my above post and you think your up to It I would love to see a great macro from you that can do it ;)
 
It would be too much for my little brain to write it from scratch. But, I would like to take a crack at modifying your existing macro.
 
Can you get me the raw text of the book? If so, I think I can reproduce the code to count off all the words, and cull the end-of-line hyphenated words at the same time.

Else, can you get me the Word macro(s) that generated your list?
 
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