On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote:
By the way, what I did for indexing on "Troubleshooting Techniques of
the Successful Technologist" was to run the LyX file through a
shellscript that split it into individual words and performed a unique
sort. I came up with less than 1000 words. I then looked at every word,
decided whether it, or a phrase including it, deserved a place in the
index, weeding out all the extraneous words. Now armed with a list of
words, within LyX I searched for all occurrences of each word and tagged
them. If memory serves me, it took about 2 days to index this book of
over 100,000 words, and the resulting index was complete and easy to
use.
This sounds quite effective. I know wiki isn't your style, but maybe we
could together describe how to do this so that others can also use it?
Primarily I'm thinking of creating a simple example set with a .lyx-file,
shell script and expected output.
What do you think?
regards
/Christian
PS. As an aside, I did something similar with all formulas in my thesis in
order to ensure I had a consistent notation. This was actually also very
useful when creating the list of symbols.
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
