I am hoping there is a macro or some trick to quickly add index entries for a document. Currently, I am trying to add an index for a genealogy book, I've written (still in alpha mode). This book covers about 135 pages at letter size paper and about 600 people. While the index will build all links to the individual,that means tagging 600 entries. Not fun. I know I should have done this as I created it, but it was created en-mass from a database and then edited. I originally had this in AmiPro, but I'll discuss that later. Is there anything to make it faster, or do I just need to bite the bullet?
OpenOffice uses BASIC as one of its scripting languages, meaning that if you can generate a list of all the names you want to "tag" then write a macro which cycles through the list, searching the main document for each item, then tagging it, your bullet is bitten.
You're probably going to spend as much time figuring out how to do this, and then doing it, as you would the manual method, but from that point forward, you'll know OO macros and you'll be a poweruser.
Secondly, I'd like to know why OpenOffice doesn't import AmiPro documents? Just a rant I guess.
Dunno. A quick Google search reveals that it does. You can always save to RTF, which is a good portable format for most purposes.
Lastly, I'm curious if there are any peopel out there writing books in Linux and what they use? I've heard of Latex and such things for layout, but not really sure why you'd want to use them. They just look confusing as Hell.
I plan to use Scribus for a book I'm working on when it's ready to publish. I haven't used it yet, but it has very good reviews across the spectrum.
-Jared