Index for "Progressive Scratch-Building in Ship Modeling"

[rcweir]

Does anyone know if an index has been compiled for Clay Feldman's "Progressive Scratch-Building in Ship Modeling"?     I've just obtained Seaways Publishing's bound collection (2006) of articles by Dr. Feldman.   It's packed with information, but there's barely a Table of Contents and no sign of an index that I can see for the whole volume nor for any of the individual articles.

 

[kurtvd19]

Bob:

Sorry, but there doesn't appear to be anything other than the index to each of the books contained in the collection as shown below.  The only detailed index is for the Modeling an Armed Virginia Sloop of 1768 on page 59.

Kurt

 

Progressive Scratch-Building in Ship Modeling
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Introduction………………………………………………4
Building the Bermuda Boat Corsair……………………6
Modeling an Armed Virginia Sloop of 1768………….54
Building the Fair American……………………………189
Completing the Fair American……………………….262
Fair American Photo Album………………………….335
Fair American Plan Sheets…………………………...354

[rcweir]

Thanks, Kurt.   Then I will try to get ambitious and do something myself.  If what I come up with looks useful I'll post it here.  

 

Bob

[Jaager]

Way back when an IBM XT was cutting edge, there was an excellent program = Word Perfect  that could search a document for all instances of a selected word.  This sort of program has become more sophisticated and capable and OCR has also.  In the posts where old school draftsmen are discussing a lost job type,  I am musing that there may have been specialists, no longer needed,  who assembled the index for technical books and articles.  Were I an author, I am pretty sure it would be a deal breaker if I was required to formulate an index for my own work pre computer.

[mtaylor]

As a former tech writer in a previous live, you're quite right Jaager.  Yes, I did manual indexing of manuals.  Computers were a blessing.  As for today, I'm not sure is MS Word (or whatever the heck they're calling these days) has that functionality as I don't use a word processor anymore. I get along fine with the basic tools in Winders such as Notepad and Wordpad and Works.

 

I should add that Word Perfect was wonderful, far superior to any MicroSloth product.  Then MS got their revenge.  They did a new version of Word and didn't release all the tech info so Word Perfect would be compatible even though MS made sure Word was compatible.  

[rcweir]

I compiled a Table of Contents for the book and have posted it here.    Kurt Van Dahm has incorporated it into the NRG's PDF version of the book and I believe it will be included in all future distributions of "Progressive Scratch-Building in Ship Modeling" that the NRG sends out.

 

There was an unexpected complication in this:   there are three different versions of the book now - all essentially identical in content but each with different page numberings.   They are:

1. The printed version of the book, copyright 2006.   The TOC for it is the attached download named "TOC for Ship Modeling by Feldman (printed version).pdf".
2. The former PDF version of the book, copyright 2003, which has been distributed by the NRG.   The TOC for it is the attached download named "TOC for Ship Modeling by Feldman (orig PDF version).pdf".
3. The current PDF version of the book, also copyright 2003, which no one has yet but is what you'll get from the NRG in the future.   No download is needed because its TOC will be integral to the document. 

I hope this is not too confusing - in content all of these versions of the book are the same - it's only the page numbers which differ.    This was both a tedious and enjoyable exercise for me; enjoyable  because through it I had several pleasant conversations with Kurt.

 

TOC for Ship Modeling by Feldman (printed version).pdf TOC for Ship Modeling by Feldman (orig PDF version).pdf

[thibaultron]

Thank you!

[kurtvd19]

Thanks to Bob for compiling the new expanded table of contents.

Kurt

[Bob Cleek]

I've used WordPerfect in my law practice since the mid-eighties. I'm now using version 7.0, IIRC. It has been expanded greatly over the years and remains head and shoulders above any other word processing program. There are no longer any translation problems with MSWord, although formatting is sometimes problematic. The only complaint I have is that I'd memorized all the DOS commands to operate it and then they went to a "windows" icon-based control model. There is, however, an option for operating the new versions in an "old version" mode if one wants to keep using the DOS commands. I went over to the icons gradually. It does so much now that it's not humanly possible to remember all the old keystroke commands (which still work in the newer versions.) It's a great program. It will now automatically generate tables of contents and indexes if you want it to.

[Jaager]

One of the things I really liked about WordPerfect  was how easy it was to set up a macro.

Pre-computer, I was taught by my dissertation director to set up a 3x5 card with keywords, for the photocopies of research articles,  so that what was wanted could be found again.

There was an old sharewear database program,  comma delimited, very straight forward, and easy to use.  I used it to do a database for stick and string articles in  NRJ, MB,  SIS, MSB, and MSW.     Windows killed it and I could find no low cost and easy replacement. 

The data was a txt file,  so I can search it using EditPad,  but with no macro,  it took forever to reformat into something that looked good.  Instead of one long line with commas for each entry.                  

I lost heart - just typing was not as much fun as filling in a form - so I can find nothing published after 1995.

[trippwj]

On 5/21/2020 at 6:59 AM, Jaager said:

One of the things I really liked about WordPerfect  was how easy it was to set up a macro.

Pre-computer, I was taught by my dissertation director to set up a 3x5 card with keywords, for the photocopies of research articles,  so that what was wanted could be found again.

There was an old sharewear database program,  comma delimited, very straight forward, and easy to use.  I used it to do a database for stick and string articles in  NRJ, MB,  SIS, MSB, and MSW.     Windows killed it and I could find no low cost and easy replacement. 

The data was a txt file,  so I can search it using EditPad,  but with no macro,  it took forever to reformat into something that looked good.  Instead of one long line with commas for each entry.                  

I lost heart - just typing was not as much fun as filling in a form - so I can find nothing published after 1995.

 

WHile I am not sure if it will meet your needs (or be too complex in what it does), there is a free FREE free program which I have been using for some time to catalogue and index my resources (print, websites, images, downloadable articles/books and so on). https://www.zotero.org/

 

Here is a screenshot of my install (currently contains some 2,100 entries).