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February 13, 2013
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Arbortext Parts Catalog

  • February 13, 2013
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We are trying to create a parts catalaog with Arbotext. Picture on the LH side table on the RH side. We can create the basic layout of how we would like it to look.


Some questionswe have for others that arecurrentlydoing this,is you style sheet customized to breaka table and contiue it on the next page? Can it alsocopy theimage and place it on the nextpage also?


Is your index all numbers? Does it format correctly? We have a mixture of 4 to 6 digits. It seems to start at the first digit being 100000, the goes goes until the second digit comes into play, then organizes all the numbers regardless of actual value that start with 120000.


How do you formatthe index to look better when you have lots of pages under one entry?


Thanks


Bryon

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    thendricks12-Amethyst
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    July 18, 2013
    Not that I know the answer, but to make sure this is clear...sounds like it's doing an alpha order versus a numerical sort. Correct?
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    ptc-19080751-Visitor
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    July 18, 2013
    Bryon,

    What markup is used for index entries?

    Suzanne


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    bfriesen18-OpalAuthor
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    July 18, 2013

    <indexterm><index-sort-as>001234</index-sort-as>1234</indexterm>1234 is what our index markup looks like, It was by your suggestion to add the index-sort-as element inorder to get the index to initially format correctly. Now I am looking at numbers more than six digits, and the index does not seem to handle those correctly placing the seven digit numbers before a six digit.



    Thanks for your help



    Bryon

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    ptc-19080751-Visitor
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    July 18, 2013
    Thanks! What is the FOSI code?

    Suzanne


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    bfriesen18-OpalAuthor
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    July 18, 2013
    How do I find that? We are using a customized stylesheet in AE 6.0

    Thanks

    Bryon
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    ptc-19080751-Visitor
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    July 18, 2013
    In the ASCII file (ends with a .fos extension), search for:

    gi="indexterm"

    and copy the markup that surrounds it starting with

    <e-i-c gi="indexterm">

    and ending with:

    </e--i-c>

    Do the same for:

    gi="index-sort-as"


    If more than one e-i-c is coded for these elements, copy them as well.

    Suzanne


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    bfriesen18-OpalAuthor
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    July 18, 2013

    See the attached image for the fos files I have in my application. Have opened and searched all of them and there is no reference to index in them.



    Thanks



    Bryon

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    ptc-19080751-Visitor
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    July 18, 2013
    Bryon,

    Open the document (.sgm or .xml file) in an ASCII and look for a processing instruction similar to the following:




    The href attribute specifies the FOSI to use.


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    bfriesen18-OpalAuthor
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    July 19, 2013
    We are using the default index that is with Editor, when doing our parts catalog, almost all the data in it is numbers. The problem is that Editor does not sort numbers by value. Suzanne initially solved my dilemma by informing us to use the sort-as element and add zeros to make them six digits long then everything formatted correctly in the index. While writing this it made me think why can I not just add another zero to make it seven characters long and it will format correctly. And it seems to work just fine. Thanks for steering me in the right direction.

    Thanks

    Bryon
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