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THESAURI, GLOSSARIES, DICTIONARIES
INDEXING SOFTWARE
Mailing lists for software users can be found on the Indexing, General page.
Cindex http://www.indexres.com/home.html for DOS, Windows (32-bit) and Macintosh. Demo downloads available on the site together with the User's Manual in pdf format.
emDEX http://www.emdex.ca/ "a FrameMaker™ Plug-In, adding a real-time visual means of watching your index grow right before your eyes to help you track and modify your index entries on the fly. No more need to tag-and-generate again and again." Demo available for download.
HTML Indexer http://www.html-indexer.com/ for Windows. Software for indexing HTML files on web sites. Demo available for download.
Idxtools http://idxtools.sourceforge.net/ A suite of tools to assist in the productions of indexes, primarily aimed at indexers working from existing material such as printed proofs. The central concept behind Idxtools is the file format used for the indexes. All the programs understand this format.
IXgen http://home.pacifier.com/~franks/ixmid.html Indexing add-on for Adobe Framemaker.
Kindex http://www.apg.u-net.com/kindex.htm Shareware. "A program to index paginated hard copy. Especially useful to academic authors indexing their own books. Up to 30,000 entries; up to 2999 pages in each of 10 vols. Accords with BS1749 & BS 53700 Requirements: Dos 4.1 up (KINDEX is a DOS program, but will run under WINDOWS)"
Leverage Technologies http://www.levtechinc.com/ This company produces a number of utilities, primarily for use with Cindex. These include some specifically for legal indexing.
Macrex http://www.macrex.com/ for Windows. Demo with tutorial available for download.
Sky http://www.sky-software.com/ for Windows. Demo available for download.
Tim
Craven Freeware
http://publish.uwo.ca/~craven/freeware.htm
Includes XRefHT32
- "Assists in human indexing of Web documents. Produces index displays
in HTML form, including links to Web documents. Allows for automatic target
extraction, target and link insertion, and production of tables of contents
in HTML files and insertion of certain other HTML codes in plain text
files."
and TheW32
- "Assists in creating, modifying, and printing out a thesaurus. Allows
users to define their own link types and report formats. Includes a template
with definitions of the standard SN, USE, UF, BT, NT, and RT relation types
and alphabetical, short, and tree report formats."
Files in zip format.
Prof. Tim Craven, Faculty of Information and Media Studies University of
Western Ontario, Canada.
Utilities for Cindex http://www.levtechinc.com/ProdServ/LTUtils.htm A number of utilities for general, electronic and legal indexing.
wIndex http://www.abbington.com/holbert/windex.html for DOS
Xindy
http://www.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/xindy/
and moving to
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xindy/ An
index processor that can be used to generate book-like indexes for
arbitrary document-preparation systems. This term includes systems such as
TeX and LaTeX, the roff-family, and SGML/XML-based systems (e.g., HTML).
Mailing lists for software users can be found on the Indexing, General page.