Peter Kahrel

Cross-references are printed in the order in which they were added to the document. If you add to a topic a cross-reference to the topic Python, and later, at the same topic, create a cross-reference to the topic JavaScript, you end up with See also Python; See also JavaScript. This can be fixed with a […]

Here’s a way to filter file types in your Open File dialog box.

InDesign doesn’t distinguish letter-by-letter and word-by-word sorting, it supports only letter-by-letter sorting.

Unlike subtopics, which InDesign sorts, cross-references are printed in the order in which they were added to the document. If you create a cross-reference to the topic UXP, and later, at the same topic, create a cross-reference to the topic JavaScript, then another one to AppleScript, the Index panel shows them in the order you […]

Topic names cannot natively be styled in the Index panel. However, a simple solution is to add text tags such as <i>. . .</i> and use two GREP queries in the generated index to apply character styles and remove the tags, or set up a GREP style in the topic paragraph styles to hide those […]

The terms ‘concordance’ and ‘index’ are not used in the same way by everybody. For the purposes of this web page, I use concordance for a list of occurrences of one word in its context and index for a list of several words, each word accompanied by one or more page references. There are several types of index (word […]

Sort a table on up to three columns. Formatting can be preserved.

Apply a paragraph style to index entries that start a new letter. Optionally insert section headings.

Learn two easy ways to convert footnotes and endnotes to marginal notes in InDesign.

When you edit an index, for example to combine entries, you can end up with un-well-formed page ranges such as 2, 16-34, 4-8, 5-10, x, 12-18, ii-iv. The Update Index script fixes this—either the whole index or just the selected entry.