Question on creating Personal Books

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?

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Mark Barnes

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

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.