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******************** HELP FOR "GENERATE INDEX" MENU***********************
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OVERVIEW: The "Generate Index" Menu includes options which enable you
          to customize INDEX! operations for your particular needs, to
          insert your index codes into your text files, and to strip
          codes from previously-indexed files if necessary. The
          individual menu options follow:

INDEX!: This is the main program. Choosing this option begins the actual
        process of inserting the index codes (which you specified in the
        "Terms to Index" Menu) into the Ventura text files (which you
        selected in the "Files to Index" Menu). If you need to interrupt
        the indexing of a series of files, you can hit the ESCAPE key, 
        and you will be given the option to stop indexing and exit as
        soon as the current file is completed.

EXCLUDE TAGS: Sometimes you may not want index codes to be inserted into
              certain kinds of paragraphs or "tags" in your Ventura text
              files (as for example with running heads or running feet,
              where index codes would create final index page references
              to every page on which the header or footer occurs). Use
              this option to specify which paragraph tags you wish to
              exclude from the indexing process. Up to ten tags may be
              designated.

DEFAULTS: This option enables you to customize six INDEX! features, as
          follows:
         
          1. Default Directory: Enter the name of the drive and directory 
             is to serve as the default directory for the identification, 
             location and use of Publications and/or Chapters to be indexed.
             The default is the directory from which you ran INDEX!.

          2. Default Extensions: Enter the file extensions should serve as 
             the defaults for INDEX! in choosing the text files to display 
             for indexing when reading .CHP files in the PUBLICATIONS
             or CHAPTERS option of the "Files to Index" menu. Enter a list
             of extensions like this: .TXT.CAP.DOC, etc. An extensionless
             file is signified by the dot; that is, the entry ..TXT.CAP
             will cause Index! to look for files with no extension, .TXT
             files and .CAP files. The default is .TXT.CAP.

          3. Rename Original Files: Answer this YES if you want INDEX!
             to give your original file names to the coded files it produces
             and rename your original files with .IXT and .IXC (.CAP files
             only) extensions. Answer NO if you want INDEX! to leave the
             original files with the original names, and name the newly
             indexed versions with the .IXT and .IXC extensions. If you
             choose NO, you must later rename the indexed files before
             your Ventura chapters will recognize them, or else you must
             reload these files into the chapters. YES is the default.
             

          4. Separate Entries for .CAP Files: Answer YES if you want INDEX!
             to automatically create asterisked index entries for any items
             it finds in the .CAP file. This provides an easy way to 
             highlight references to photos and other figures in the final
             index. Answer NO if references from .CAP files should be 
             the same way as other references. The default is NO.

          5. Interpret Leading and Trailing Spaces: Answer YES if you wish
             Index! to interpret leading and trailing spaces in search
             phrases by doing several searches, each of which will 
             substitute a different character which could reasonably exist
             in the text in place of the spacebar. Answer NO if you do not
             wish Index! to do multiple searches for expressions with
             leading and trailing spaces. The default is NO.

             When you choose YES, INDEX! automatically performs the
             following alternative searches when it encounters leading
             and/or trailing spaces in SRCH expressions:

             For a leading space, INDEX! uses the spacebar plus these:

                       '      >      (

             For a trailing space, INDEX! uses the spacebar plus these:

                       ;      '      :      )      ,      .      <

             When there are both leading and trailing spaces, INDEX!
             uses a subset of the two sets above, searching for every
             combination of spacebars plus:

                  Leading:     >
                  Trailing:    ,      .      <

                  
          6. Index Excluded Tags: Answer YES if you wish Index! to index
             paragraphs with the tags last specified in EXCLUDE TAGS. Answer
             NO if you wish these paragraphs to be excluded from indexing. 
             The default is NO.

STRIP CODES: If you add index codes to the wrong text file, or add index
             codes which are incorrect, outdated, or in the way of further
             editing, you can strip the codes from the text file with this
             option, returning the file to its original condition. You can
             specify only one file at a time for code stripping. Enter the
             full path name if the file is not in the current directory.
             The file to be stripped should be on the same disk as INDEX!.

HELP: This option provides the on-screen information which you are now
      reading.

MORE HELP: If you would like to have more help online relating to the
           GENERATE INDEX menu, you can edit the file "INGENMEN.HLP" in
           any ASCII text editor, adding to or reshaping the material as
           you see fit up to a maximum file size of 64K. Use spaces rather
           than tabs to indent, limit line lengths to 76 characters, and
           end each and every line with a carriage return.


