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Compiling topical list (tables)

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    • July 7, 2017 at 10:44 am #95934
      Yelena Bondarenko
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      I have a large body of text with legal content. The task is to compile the table (list) of California rules of court, statuses and table of cases. In existing copy it looks like a cross reference to me, e.g.

      Education code
      § 230, F-89
      § 46069, F-24

      etc.

      So basically anything with the § or §§ or the word “rule” or “status” should be accounted for and listed with the reference to page. I am sorry I am not closely familiar with the cross reference, but if it can be used, is there any good tutorial?

      Where F-89, F-24 are page numbers.

      Are there InDesign native tools or 3rd party plugins, scripts to achieve this task?

      Help will be greatly appreciated.

    • July 7, 2017 at 12:15 pm #95938
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
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      Hi,

      Surely a work for a “Terminator”!

      Find [easy!] such a guy in your California State and tell him your name is Sarah Connors! [He will work for you totally for free!]
      Just deal with him: When the job will be done, he will just need to “return back to the past” and just give you the ID files!
      [of course, he will need to use ID CC 2017, not ID CC 2027!!! – I suppose Adobe would not have been desappeared!]

      … So, to do it, finally, you just need, say, several seconds! … Not even the time to enjoy a Margarita!

      (^/)

      [Week-end joke!]

    • July 9, 2017 at 7:31 am #95952
      Peter Kahrel
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      Yelena — Unlike Microsoft Word, InDesign doesn’t do tables of authority and other tables. Those tables are in fact indexes. The problem in InDesign is further that you can do just one index per document/book. The standard way to get around that is by coding your topics in such a way that you in effect create several index in the general index. It works as follows: mark up the subject index as usual. Table of statute items you can prefix with e.g. ##, tables of cases items, with e.g. @@. Then when you generate the index you get something like

      ##item (table of statutes)
      ##item
      @@item (table of cases)
      @@item
      item (subject index)
      item

      Then all you need to do is to move the ##items and @@items to where they should appear, and remove ## and @@.

      Peter

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