Quark trouble 1

[aguagu]

Hi!
I'm composing a sort of dictionary, scanning some pages, then OCR, and with the help of Word I'm correcting/modifying it. Let's say I want to create a quark file for my dictionary (like the printed ones we used at school time). I'd like to have the first word bold, the definition and the examples in italic and the rest of the text plain. What's the best way to do this? In Word or in Quark, selecting each word I need?

There's another issue: in each dictionary on the header of the page there are two words: the first of the page, and the last. I can add them manually for each page (it's a huge work), but let's say I'm gonna adding a term in the middle of the page... The top word of each page won't be the same I typed at hand, so I have to review each page each time?!??! I think there's something that can do this job for me.. Am I wrong?!

Please help me!
Thanks.

 

[rickwells]

I think this could be a case for using style sheets in Quark and I believe this facility is also available in Word. I'm no expert on style sheets but there are many others who are !

 

[duncdude]

1) In older versions of Quark styles were paragraph-level. Any style sheet applied would effect the entire paragraph. Now there are 2 levels of style sheets - both paragraph and character-level. The character level style sheet will allow you to select part of a paragraph, style it, independent of other characters that surround it. Just what you need unless i have misunderstood your request

2) This sounds like an indexing problem. Heavy! I don't think Quark has any support for this. Are you are hoping for Quark to be able to monitor the 1st and last words on a page - and then put them at the header of the page as dictionaries do? Ouch! Maybe someone else knows different...


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[aguagu]

Thanks for your answers... The 1st issue has been solved...

The real issue was with the "indexing" problem... I mean: I want to create a sort of dictionary, as I told before, like the printed ones we all have at home (english dictionary, dutch dictionary, italian ... )

Let's say you have all the words in a quark file... you got all the pages filled with the definitions in 2 columns per page, the page number, the top line between the text and the page number, but you miss the 2 words (one on the left and one on the right) of the header.. how could you do that?
If you do it by hand each page, it's ok... but what if you should add a new term? (to best see what i'm saying, please take a look at any printed dictionary at home)

Thanks again.. I hope anybody could help me.

 

[MarcusStringer]

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