Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 259)

Creating Documents Indexes 239
4. Check the commands you want in the dialog then click Mark.
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Of course, if you index a word as the same word, it is equivalent to choosing Index.
Internally, however, Index As… and Index are different. This internal difference is important under
the following circumstances:
• When you want to create overlapping index entries (as explained on page 243)
• When you edit the entries.
If you change the text in the document with the attribute Index, what appears in the index
changes also.
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But only if any text you add is not at the end of the indexed text. This process is similar to
adding text to a bookmark as explained in “Edit an automatically named bookmark” on page
218.
If you change the Index As… text in the document, the text in the index does not change.
Emphasize the page of a particular occurrence of an item in the index
You might have a document that deals with the same subject in many locations but one of them is
more important than the rest. You can make this page (or range of pages) stand out.
So, for example, the word “race” (as in “horse race” appears a number of times in the novel Black
Beauty. It appears as “races” on page 5 and then again as “race” on pages 42, 63 and 105. However
the word appears twice on page 63 suggesting that this is the primary instance. You can cause page
63 to appear “highlighted” in the index:
race, 42, 63, 105
races, 5
1. Select the word, on the page that is to be highlighted.
2. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Index As….
3. Make sure that Automatically generate topic from text and List page number are selected.
4. Check the Listing formatting you want to use (either bold or italic, or both)
5. Click Mark.
Figure 270
Highlight a page occurrence in the index