Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 263)

Creating Documents Indexes 243
Create an index entry which references all text of a given font, size and/or style (or
language)
Similar to the instructions on “Set the various headings of your document so that they
automatically appear in the table of contents” which appear on page 228, you can apply the index
attribute to any Paragraph or Character Style in your document. This makes marking text for the
index automatic. Suppose you are writing a specialized document in which all the text in a
particular language should appear in the index….
1. Choose the menu command View > Style Sheet.
2. Select the Style you want to have automatically included in the index.
Creating new styles is explained in “Create a new style” on page 103.
3. Select the sample text.
4. Choose the appropriate index from the bottom of the menu Tools > Index.
Creating a new index is explained in “Create a new index” on page 248.
Figure 274
A special “language” Character style set for inclusion in an index
5. Complete steps 2 through 4 for each separate style you want included in its own index.
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This document’s “Index of Commands and Screen Messages” is created in this manner.
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You can use the Find/Replace capability of Nisus Writer Pro to select text patterns that you want to
index.
Index overlapping entries
You must use two different methods—Index and Index As…, and/or Additional Index As…. For
example, if you wish to index dogs, cats, birds, and iguanas as Pets in the following sentence “The
pet store sells dogs, cats, birds, and iguanas.”
The pet store sells dogs, cats, birds, and iguanas.
1. Select dogs, cats, birds, and iguanas as shown above,
2. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Index As….
3. Type Pets in the Index as topic box and click Mark.
4. Select iguanas.
The pet store sells dogs, cats, birds, and iguanas.
5. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Index.
By doing this, you have added two overlapping entries to the index Pets and iguanas.