Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 261)

Creating Documents Indexes 241
Use the index to refer to other entries
If you want to index “fish” as “fishing” (have “fishing” appear in the index) and refer to the actual
pages in your document (where the word “fish” appears), the instructions in “Index one thing as
something else “index as”” on page 238 suffice. However, if you do not want the page numbers to
appear but rather have the reader refer to a different subject in the index, Nisus Writer Pro offers a
different tool. You may be writing a technical text about various animals and, rather than have the
reader find numerous entries for different subsets of those animals you want them to refer to a
more technical, or higher level term. This method also permits referencing other index entries. You
can refer readers to other entries with the text you type into List cross-reference box.
1. Select the text you want to index.
2. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Index As….
The currently selected text appears in the Index as topic box.
Figure 272
The Index As… dialog set for a cross-reference
3. Type the text you want to appear in the index into Index as topic box.
4. Check one or both of the Topic formatting options, if you want.
5. Click List cross-reference.
6. Click in the text box to the right to activate it. Horse
7. Type the secondary index entry in the text edit box.
You can leave the “See: ” text that is already in the List cross-reference text edit box or type
over it.
8. Check one or both of the Listing formatting options, if you want.
9. Click Mark.
Index all occurrences of the word in the “Index as topic” box
You may want to index all occurrences of the word in the Index as topic box.
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Click Mark All.
Add an additional “Index As” reference to indexed text
1. Select the “indexed as” text to which you want to add an additional reference in the index.
2. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Additional Index As….
The dialog illustrated in Figure 157 above appears as if this was the first time you were adding
the selected entry to the index.
3. Complete steps 1 and 2 in the section “Index one thing as something else “index as”“ on page
238 for each entry you want the index to include.