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Resources: Software


Web Indexing Tools

Stand-alone tools for indexing HTML pages

Conversion Utilities

To convert indexes created in book indexing software or word processing programs into HTML indexes

  • Mapper by Leverage Technologies, Inc.
    Utilizes a map file to convert page locators to URLs.
  • XRefHT freeware also has index conversion capabilities.

Help Authoring Tools

The following is a selection of tools that have features to create HTML help-style scrollable indexes of pages, generally created in or exported into the program

Metadata Indexing and Embedded Indexing

Articles on Web indexing tools

Brown, Fred, "Converting Indexes with WebWorks Publisher", Allegro Time!, June, 2002

Brown, Fred, "Embedded vs. Stand-Alone Indexes", Allegro Time!, March, 2001.

Brown, Fred, "Embedding indexes in FrameMaker", Allegro Time!, October, 2002

Brown, Fred, "Indexing with DocBook XML", Allegro Time!, September, 2001, updated May, 2009.

Brown, Fred, "Indexing with Microsoft Word", Allegro Time!, December, 2001.

Brown, Fred, "Indexing with open source tools", (pdf) KnowGenesis IJTC, Vol. 1, Issue 2, June 2006.

Brown, Fred, "Think Macros! - cool tricks to save time and cut the "wear and tear"", Bulletin, Indexing Society of Canada, Autumn 2002.

Hedden, Heather, “Software for HTML Indexing: A Comparative Review.” (pdf) in The Indexer, Vol. 25, No. 1, April 2006: p. 32-37.

Jermey, Jon, “Linux and the indexer - a note”, The Indexer 27(3):135, September 2009

Jermey, Jon, “Metabrowser: automated metatagging of Web pages,” in Online Currents, Vol. 20 Issue 3. 2005. 6-7

Wyman, L. Pilar, “HTML Indexing -- a few hints on what it's all about” article about Web indexing tools, 2001.

Research

Internationalization, Linguistics, Fonts and Dictionary Tools


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