Re: Making manuals, using Word (long)

["Lisa Wright" <liwright -at- uswest -dot- net>]

Barclay calmly explained:
> and Woody
> Leonhard has addressed the issue in some of his books
> (Hacker's Guide to Word for Windows,

And Lisa said:
Doh!
If only I'd known about Woody before I had to reverse engineer it on my own
from someone else's documents. This is indeed the solution we used, that I
so lamely tried to describe from memory. It worked pretty well!

Lisa

> What I do is make separate files for each chapter,
> for the TOC, for the frontmatter, and for the index
> and any appendices.
>
> The easiest way to paginate with this scheme is to
> have chapter numbering (i.e., page 1-1, 1-2, 2-1,
> etc.). But I have written also macros to paginate
> consecutively.
>
> In the TOC chapter, insert RD field codes (menu
> bar, Insert->Field, select RD, and select the file
> name) to cause Word to use the chapter, index, and
> appendix files when it creates the TOC. Insert the
> TOC (Insert->Index and Tables, etc.).
>
> Do the same for the index.
>
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