On Tuesday 22 November 2005 03:55, Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a wrote:
>
> 1) Difficult for index entry without assist.
> Examples:
>
> a) I have in my book: Otto von Bismark-Schonhausen
> I put the cursor at the end of this name, click on
> Insert > Index Entry and get a dialog box with the
> word Schonhausen, then I must add the rest of name
> without any misspelling each time that this name
> appears.
I found that really annoying too. What I did is put the line
\renewcommand{\underbar}[1]{\textbf{#1}\index{#1}}
at the end of my Layout->Document->Preamble. This means text that is
underlined in LyX will instead be made bold-face and added to the index in
the PDF/PS/DVI LyX generates. It is easy to underline text in LyX (e.g. by
selecting the text and pressing Cntl-U).
If you do not want your index entries bold, instead add the line:
\renewcommand{\underbar}[1]{#1\index{#1}}
> Note that in a book, after first mention, author
> only write last name but when make index entry he need
> remember the whole name. When the author make index
> entry and arrive at the middle of book encounter
> hundred of last names: Bismark? ... ehh ... with or
> without von? ... Oto or Otto? ... Schonhauser?
> ... Schonhaussen? ... Schomberg?
> Of course, Germans have not problem with names
> like this, but Germans have problems with French,
> Spanish, Russian, etc.
Ah, the trick above won't help here.
> 2) Absence of sub-issues.
> Example:
> I need get it.
> Bonaparte, Napoleon, 7,8, 56, 95.
> Bonaparte in Egypt, 111-119, 142.
> Bonaparte in Italy, 39, 160, 184.
Add these Index entries (with out the '"'s):
"Bonaparte, Napoleon"
"Bonaparte, Napoleon!Bonaparte in Egypt"
"Bonaparte, Napoleon!Bonaparte in Italy"
> Marcelo Acuña
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John C. McCabe-Dansted
Masters Student
