Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 260)

240 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools
Emphasize a particular term in the index
You might have a document that deals with a wide variety of subjects that have similar spellings.
You can make any one of those terms stand out.
1. Select the word, or phrase to be emphasized.
2. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Index As….
3. Select either Automatically generate topic from text or Use the following topic and make
sure the text is as you want it to appear in the index (you can have it appear as a sub-topic and
you can add bold and/or italic to the text portion of the listing).
4. Click either List page number or List cross-reference to have the listing refer to a particular
page in the document or to another term in the index.
5. Check the Listing formatting you want to use (either bold or italic, or both)
6. Click Mark.
Index multiple terms as one term using the Find/Replace tool
You can use the Find/Replace window to index text. In this way you can use PowerFind (or, if you
wish, regular expressions and PowerFind Pro) to find the text you want to index.
PowerFind is explained on page 301. PowerFind Pro is discussed at length beginning on page 318. A
discussion of the Or metacharacter appears on page 307.
For example, as described above, you may want to index the subject horses in your document.
Horses may be discussed wherever the words horse, horses, mare or colt are used. Use the Find/
Replace window to enter the following PowerFind expression illustrated in Figure 271 below.
Figure 271
Using “Or” to index multiple terms as one
This will find all occurrences of the words. Note that the Or is not typed but entered by choosing
the menu command Gear > Match > Or of the Find what text edit box of the Find/Replace window.
7. Find (and select) the terms you want to index as one as illustrated in Figure 271 above.
8. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Index As….
The dialog appears with all the selected text in the Index as topic text box.
9. Type the word you want to have appear in the index.
10. Click Mark.