How can I get an alphabetic index of images of a document?
With the standard caption feature, all you can get is a table of images sorted by page number.
An alphabetic list of “objects” is only possible presently with the built-in Alphabetical Index, provided you don’t already use it. This means you must manually “annotate” your images or their captions with an index key.
However, generally, images are captioned “Image 1: X with colleagues at Urbano in 1905”, “Image 2: study of Z in his home at Verona in 1910”, … To get a meaningful index entry, you’ll have to omit “Image n:” in you key. As a consequence, the entries will not look exactly the same as the captions in the index. This is probably minor for you.
As you see, we can only handle the request through clumsy workarounds because Writer offers only a single alphabetical index in the present implementation.
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Thanks a lot, very clear!
Another question.
In the index listing “Figura” is automatically generated.
How can I change it for example in “Pict.” ?
I assume you Insert>Caption after selecting an image. When you do so, you can chose another Category. Just type its name in the entry box (“Pict.”). Caution! This creates another “number range”, i.e. an independent counter to number the “category”. Consequently, this does not rename the existing captions. You must re-caption the images and delete the previous caption (perhaps after copy/paste of a part).
If you’re asking about the heading of the table, this heading is configurable in the Title field of Insert>TOC & Index>TOC, Index a Bibliography, Type tab.