{"id":805,"date":"2019-09-22T22:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T22:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/?p=805"},"modified":"2019-09-23T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T04:00:08","slug":"angela-howard-at-pnw-meeting-in-vancouver-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/22\/angela-howard-at-pnw-meeting-in-vancouver-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Howard at PNW meeting in Vancouver, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PNW chapter met for a full day of programming on\nSaturday, September 14, in Vancouver, Washington.&nbsp; In one of the sessions <strong>Angela Howard <\/strong>demystified \u201cEmbedding Index Tags in XML files\u201d by\ndemonstrating her approach. Angela explained that the publishers create\nproprietary XML and provide the syntax for the index tags which she embeds. The\npublisher also includes a program that creates a PDF file which generates an\nindex with active links from these embedded index tags. Angela made sense of this\nprocess by showing us how the index tags are embedded in an XML file. She saves\ntime by using macros to insert the standard syntax for the index entries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before Dave Ream\u2019s passing, Angela used IXML Embedder. Since\nthen, she has been doing the embedding without software but has recently began\nto explore Index Manager. She hopes that this program will soon be able to\nhandle all the different \u201cflavors\u201d of XML.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angela also presented on \u201cTechnical Indexes with a Structured Approach.\u201d Drawing on the approaches of Fred Leise on structured indexing and\u00a0\u00a0Kay Schlembach on metatopics, Angela explained granularity and her process of creating a high-level map of the book&#8217;s content as a security blanket to guide her as she drills down to the more specific levels of details. She paid special attention to nitty-gritty aspects of technical books, such as acronyms, gerunds, classifiers, and symbols.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PNW chapter is grateful to Angela for these excellent, &nbsp;informative presentations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PNW chapter met for a full day of programming on Saturday, September 14, in Vancouver, Washington.&nbsp; In one of the sessions Angela Howard demystified \u201cEmbedding Index Tags in XML files\u201d by demonstrating her approach. Angela explained that the publishers create proprietary XML and provide the syntax for the index tags which she embeds. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-publications-indexing.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}