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In prior versions of TMG we have got the ability to accumulate bibliography from diferent reports through Bibiogarphy Report.

Now, as far as I know, TMG8 as no longer this very useful report.

My question is, How can I, with TMG8 accumulate bibliography from multiple reports?

Regards,

Pedro Garrido

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Pedro,

 

You are correct, the Bibliography report no longer exists. It and the Endnotes report were provided in order to produce endnotes and a bibliography for reports sent to screen and directly to a printer. They were never available for reports sent to a word processor, since they were included in those reports. Now that footnotes/endnotes and bibliographies are included in all reports regardless of where they are sent, the Endnote and Bibliography reports have been dropped.

 

What kind of reports are you producing that you want to produce a collective bibilography? If they are all of one type, you can accomplish that by producing them as a single report. For example, a series of Journal reports can be produced by specifying as "subjects" all of the starting persons, not just one at a time. Is this a possible solution?

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Hi Terry,

Thank you so much for your prompt reply.

As a matter of fact, I am producing a huge Journal report. As, before including fotos and images, it has about 1250 pages. In order to have something more manageble, I have built up kind of people report like UFT did. In order to achieve something like that, I have found EOL ancenstors and for a few hundreds I gave them a reference number to sort appropriatly.

So I produce 4 volumes, each one from reference number from 0001 to 1000, 1001 to 2000 and so on.

Each volume have his own name index and bibliography. The ideal situation would be to have a unic name index and bibliography. However, as for name index I supose it would be dificult to accumulate a single index from each volume, for bibliography, that would be possible with the good old "Bibliography Report".

So my question is, now, how can I achieve the same result and have a single accumulated bibliography?

Many thankas again,

Pedro Garrido

Sorry for my english and hope you understand the core idea.

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Pedro,

 

You English if perfectly fine.

 

If I understand your intent, you are creating four Journal Reports, one for each volume. For each one TMG can produce a name index, and a bibilography. But you want a combined bibliography, and if possible, a combined name index. Since you are producing name indexes, you must be outputting to a word processor. Some ideas...

 

For the Bibliography, you could try to make a single Journal report with all four volumes in it, with a bibliography. Then copy that bibliography into the "real" reports. The trouble is, I don't know whether a report that large will complete successfully, and if it did, whether Word would open the file. But if it will complete, you can sent it to screen, and copy the bibliography from the screen (in Draft mode) and paste it into Word. I'm not sure how the formatting would work, but that may be a solution.

 

For the name index, I think it best to try to do that in Word. The index is created in Word from codes put into the file by TMG. What I would try is to copy all four volumes into a single Word document, then try to have Word create the index. Then, use Word's commands to convert the index (which is made up of "fields") to ordinary text, so you could copy it to the individual volumes or however you want to publish the master index.

 

If that works, the issue is how to deal with page numbers. One way is to number the pages continuously through the four volumes. You would have to set the starting page in Word for volumes 2 through 4 so they match what they were in the combined volume. Or, in the combined version in Word, break it up into sections corresponding to the four volumes, and set the page numbers to have a prefix corresponding to the volume, and restart the page numbers for each one. I've not tried putting prefixes on page numbers, but I'm pretty sure you can do that - like chapter numbers would be in a single book. It might take some research on Word's features to work that out.

 

I hope some of these ideas offer some solutions.

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Hi Pedro,

 

For the Bibliography would this idea work? Create your 4 separate Journal volumes, but change the report options to NOT include a Bibliography. Now run a Journal report of EVERYONE which includes the Bibliography, but only send that to a word processing file. In your word processor, simply delete everything in that file except the combined Bibliography.

 

Maybe some other user will have an idea about a combined Name Index, but I think that is harder.

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Hi Terry and Michael,

Thnk you so much for your sugestions.

For Bibliography, I am pretty sure that yours, is the solution.

For index, after some research, I am going to try "RD field code" in Word. I never worked with it, but it can work. Let us see.

Regards,

Pedro

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