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From: marder@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Stephen Marder)
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Subject: Dictionary headers
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Date: 27 Apr 91 02:05:57 GMT
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   Here's the situation graphically:


   [       ]                       [       ]

   devoted,.....
   devotee,...
   etc., etc., etc.
                                   Dhaulagiri,...
                                   Dhilos,...
                                   dhobi,...


Explanation:
   What I want to be able to do is run a program (macro, utility,
whatever) which will go through several hundred pages of a painstakingly
compiled bilingual dictionary and pick out the first entry on the page in
a special headword font and deposit it in the upper left-hand corner, and
then pick out the last entry on the page in the same headword font and
deposit it in the upper right-hand corner, preferably in a slightly larger
size than in the headword. (Each page of the dictionary contains two
columns.) For obvious reasons, I would prefer NOT to have to carry out
this operation manually.
 
   Can anyone offer any assistance/advice? BTW, my preferred computer is a
Macintosh. 




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Stephen Marder                             Department of Russian
Email: marder@kauri.vuw.ac.nz              Victoria University of Wellington