Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 201)

Sort Options dialog box
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when entering the term “The Cats” in an index, if “Cats” is input in the Yomi text box and two index entries are created without any input, the
term “The Cats” will be generated under the T and C index topics.
For Korean sort order, you can specify Korean Consonant or Korean Consonant Plus Vowel.
Sort order of Chinese indexes
You determine the sort order of Chinese characters in two places -- in the Sort Options dialog box, and in the Sort By field when you create or edit
an index entry.
Choosing Sort Options from the Index panel menu lets you change the sort order and specify whether to use Pinyin or
Stroke Count.
When you’re creating or editing an index entry, typing Chinese characters in the Topic Levels fields enables you to edit Chinese sort
information.
For Pinyin, if multiple words have the same Pinyin, the order is sorted by (1) tone and (2) stroke count in ascending order. For Stroke Count, each
character is sorted by (1) stroke count, (2) first stroke, and (3) second stroke. You can either edit the sort information directly in the Sort By field,
or you can click the arrow to the right of the Sort By field to open either the Pinyin Entry dialog box or Stroke Count Entry dialog box. You can edit
the fields and click OK. Repeat this process for each topic level.
Manage an index
After you set up your index and add index markers to your document, you can manage your index in a variety of ways. You can view all index
topics in a book, remove topics from the Topic list that aren’t used in the Reference list, find entries in either the Reference or Topics list, and
remove index markers from the document.
View all index topics in a book
When the Book option is selected, the Index panel displays entries from the entire book, not just the current document.
1. Open the book file and all of the documents it contains.
2. Select Book at the top of the Index panel.
If others need to access documents in the book while the index is being created, you can create a master list of topics in a separate document,
and then import topics from the master list to each document in the book. Note that if the master list changes, you will need to import topics to
each document again.
When you are indexing a book with multiple documents, you can display the index topics for all the documents listed by generating the book’s
index, including all the documents. Then you don’t have to use Import Topics in the Index menu to manually import the topics into each
document.
Remove unused topics from the Topic list
Once you have created your index, you can delete topics that weren’t included in the index.
1. Choose Window > Type & Tables > Index to display the Index panel.
2. Choose Remove Unused Topics in the Index panel menu. All topics that do not have page numbers associated with them are deleted.
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