Okay, the reason I’m using Ventura 8 is that I’m updating an old publication.
The reason I don’t know what I’m doing is I last used Ventura in 1989, when it was–I don’t know what version.
And the reason that nobody in the office can help me is that the last person who used Ventura to work on files like this quit two years ago, or maybe more (before I worked here).
This is a book with lots and lots of index entries, and I will be adding a few new ones. Looking at the old file I can figure everything out except one thing, and that is in the indexing.
First there are some cross-references that look like this:
<$lAct;failure to stop not cause of><$lCause;failure to stop act, not>
and the tag is SSLJOIN, not that that means anything because you can name the tags anything you want, I think.
But then there is another line, with the tag of IDIOTAID, that looks like this:
58230 // <$l[Sub]Act;failure to stop not cause of><$l[Sub]Cause;failure to stop act, not>
…and I have no idea what that is, or how to get it. The number before the two slashes is particularly mysterious.
“idiot aid” may be appropriate here, can anybody tell me what’s going on here?
There are two separate indexes, but one is by author and does not cross-reference the subject.