ventura index

I want to create an index in a Ventura 10 document that shows headings 
without page numbers.
anyone know how to do that?

Joe 

Recently, motherlode <motherlode77@gmail.com> posted:

> I want to create an index in a Ventura 10 document that shows headings
> without page numbers.
> anyone know how to do that?
>
If I understand what you're wanting, you just have edit the Index
parameters to exclude the page number for that level.

Best,

Neil

Neil:

Thanks for your reply.  Ventura always makes me look stupid, espicially when 
I try to make it perform like I think it should, or as I think I would have 
programmed it.  I discovered today, after I posted the messages, that if you 
create a new index entry with two levels, level one doesn't have a page 
number.

Also, if you create a new index entry with three levels, levels one and two 
don't have page numbers, etc.  Pretty nice stuff.   Also, by working in copy 
editor view, you can get rid of level-one page numbers if you created those 
by mistake when you only wanted the level-two entries to have page numbers.

I also discovered that it works pretty good to split the screen, body text 
in one half-screen in copy-editor view, in the other half-screen the index 
in page-layout view, and have the navigator open.  Between these three items 
it seems much easier to build a good looking index.  I am finding that 
building an index is a pretty tedious job.

Once again, the problem was with me, not Ventura.

Thanks again for your interest.

Joe Beardsley


"Neil Gould" <neil@terratu.com> wrote in message
news:47d5bdf1$1_1@cnews...
>
> Recently, motherlode <motherlode77@gmail.com> posted:
>
>> I want to create an index in a Ventura 10 document that shows headings
>> without page numbers.
>> anyone know how to do that?
>>
> If I understand what you're wanting, you just have edit the Index
> parameters to exclude the page number for that level.
>
> Best,
>
> Neil
>
>
> 

First rule of building an index: make friends with the right mouse button.

I think I have instructions on how to keep the headings consistent. If 
you want to drop me an email (remove the apparent hostility from my 
email address in the header) I will look through my 5 year old files and 
pop it to you if you wish. Takes a huge amount of work out of it, AND 
makes it accurate at the same time for all levels (for instance 
"Officer" is not the same as "officer" or
"OFFICER", etc. Also males it 
much easier and consistent when referring to someone who started out as 
Private John Lee and finally became General Lee 10  years later. You let 
the text do much of the work for you by using the RMB menus 
appropriately. Doing anything else is asking for trouble--BIG trouble.

motherlode wrote:
> Neil:
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  Ventura always makes me look stupid, espicially
when 
> I try to make it perform like I think it should, or as I think I would have

> programmed it.  I discovered today, after I posted the messages, that if
you 
> create a new index entry with two levels, level one doesn't have a page 
> number.
> 
> Also, if you create a new index entry with three levels, levels one and two

> don't have page numbers, etc.  Pretty nice stuff.   Also, by working in
copy 
> editor view, you can get rid of level-one page numbers if you created those

> by mistake when you only wanted the level-two entries to have page
numbers.
> 
> I also discovered that it works pretty good to split the screen, body text

> in one half-screen in copy-editor view, in the other half-screen the index

> in page-layout view, and have the navigator open.  Between these three
items 
> it seems much easier to build a good looking index.  I am finding that 
> building an index is a pretty tedious job.
> 
> Once again, the problem was with me, not Ventura.
> 
> Thanks again for your interest.
> 
> Joe Beardsley
> 
> 
> "Neil Gould" <neil@terratu.com> wrote in message
news:47d5bdf1$1_1@cnews...
>> Recently, motherlode <motherlode77@gmail.com> posted:
>>
>>> I want to create an index in a Ventura 10 document that shows
headings
>>> without page numbers.
>>> anyone know how to do that?
>>>
>> If I understand what you're wanting, you just have edit the Index
>> parameters to exclude the page number for that level.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

Joe,

Glad to help. Ventura is a very robust application, and as one who has
used it since about 1985, I am still learning things about its
capabilities. So, it isn't a matter of "looking stupid"... it's just
that
the task of mastering it is non-trivial, as they say.

It still sounds to me as though you're making your task of structuring
index entries harder than it needs to be. A couple of pointers:

1) Tags are your friend. The formatting of index levels and entries are
completely under the control of the tag settings.

2) The structure of the index entries are handled by the publications'
Index control. Learn that area well, and life is good.

Best,

Neil


Recently, motherlode <motherlode77@gmail.com> posted:

> Neil:
>
> Thanks for your reply.  Ventura always makes me look stupid,
> espicially when I try to make it perform like I think it should, or
> as I think I would have programmed it.  I discovered today, after I
> posted the messages, that if you create a new index entry with two
> levels, level one doesn't have a page number.
>
> Also, if you create a new index entry with three levels, levels one
> and two don't have page numbers, etc.  Pretty nice stuff.   Also, by
> working in copy editor view, you can get rid of level-one page
> numbers if you created those by mistake when you only wanted the
> level-two entries to have page numbers.
>
> I also discovered that it works pretty good to split the screen, body
> text in one half-screen in copy-editor view, in the other half-screen
> the index in page-layout view, and have the navigator open.  Between
> these three items it seems much easier to build a good looking index.
> I am finding that building an index is a pretty tedious job.
>
> Once again, the problem was with me, not Ventura.
>
> Thanks again for your interest.
>
> Joe Beardsley
>
>
> "Neil Gould" <neil@terratu.com> wrote in message
> news:47d5bdf1$1_1@cnews...
>>
>> Recently, motherlode <motherlode77@gmail.com> posted:
>>
>>> I want to create an index in a Ventura 10 document that shows
>>> headings without page numbers.
>>> anyone know how to do that?
>>>
>> If I understand what you're wanting, you just have edit the Index
>> parameters to exclude the page number for that level.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Neil