Question on creating Personal Books

NetworkGeek

I am trying to get up to speed on the nuances of creating books, to see about the feasibility of making a few resources I have into PB's.  I have read the wiki, and I have a question that is not yet mentioned there...

The question concerns tagging - milestones, datatype links, resource links.  The wiki explains the format to create them, but I am pretty sure I have seen that the compiler will  automatically recognize Bible references and turn them into resource links. Is there other auto-tagging that is done, or do all of these (pages, datatypes, non-Bible resource tags) have to be created manually? Doesn't that take a very long time in a 200 page resource for example?

Thanks!

Mark Barnes

Dominick Sela said:

Doesn't that take a very long time in a 200 page resource for example?

Yup. That's why Logos resources sometimes seem expensive....

But seriously, I can't see the auto-tagger working for anything other than Bible references. How could it? I hope there'll be auto milestones for page numbers, but I'm not holding my breath (because the page number isn't actually stored in the .docx file).

NetworkGeek

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/259321#Comment_259321

Thanks Mark. I have done a lot with macros and VB in the past, so I may dabble in some add-ons to Word that make tagging easier. And certainly it would be easy to generate a tag for every new page.  These could be easily shared on the forums too. As PB's get a little more stable I may check into this...

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/259392#Comment_259392

Dominick, 

A set of portable macro's and buttons to automate some of the simpler tagging would be a great plan.  I'll be watching as this whole process moves forward.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/259392#Comment_259392

Dominick Sela said:

And certainly it would be easy to generate a tag for every new page

I've thought about this myself, but don't know VBScript at the moment. The main things to watch would be:

• The macro would have to work from the back to the front of the document, to ensure later pages didn't reflow when markers were added.
• The macro would have to insert actual page numbers, not just page change indicators to cope with things like odd/even page breaks.