Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 258)

238 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools
Indexes
An index is an “alphabetical” list of terms (words, numerals, symbols, and/or phrases) that may
appear in your document. These are related to key topics discussed in your text. The terms are
followed by page numbers that indicate where these ideas are discussed. An index is usually placed
at the end of a document. It is possible to have various indexes; for example subjects, proper
names, foreign words, etc.
Create an index
Though you can create an index (and certainly mark text for the index) at any time as you edit your
text, you should not create your final index until you finish the final formatting of your document
and every character is on the page where you want it to print.
Designate text to appear in the index
1. Select the text you want to appear in the index.
2. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Index.
3. Complete steps 1 and 2 for each entry you want the index to include.
Nisus Writer Pro distinguishes between Uppercase and lowercase variants of the same words
when creating the index and lists each occurrence separately.
You can index items contained in the footnotes. The page number associated with the indexed
text is that on which that text appears in the footnotes, not the page on which the footnote first
appears.
Index one thing as something else “index as”
The simple method of marking words for an index would index the words fish and fishing
individually. Both words will appear as separate entries in the index.
• fish 2-4, 7, 149
• fishing 4-6
Similarly, you may have one term in your document and want to refer to it using a more general
term in the index. In this case you index one thing as something else. For example you may have
horse, mare or colt all appearing in your document and want to have them all referred to in the
index as Horse.
Using Index As… allows you to index the selection as any key word or phrase you specify.
(You can, depending on the emphasis of your document, index “fish” as “fishing” or “fishing” as
“fish” so that the example above would have only one entry:
• fish 2-7, 14
• fishing 2-7, 149
You can use Index As… to change the uppercase words in the document so they appear as
lowercase in the index. Using this feature, you can also select a paragraph of text and index it as a
single word.
1. Select the text you want to index.
2. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Index As….
Figure 269
The Index As… dialog
The currently selected text appears in the Index As box.
3. Type the text you want to appear in the index into the Index as topic box.