March 18, 2003 Midlothian, Virginia. Virginia Systems has updated and is now shipping its automatic index generator plug-in for InDesign 2.0, Sonar Bookends InDex Pro 2.0.

New features include:

* support for InDesign's Book feature. Simply put the files that make up a document into one or more "books," open the books and build the index.

* an option to remove unfound entries from a multiple-level index.

* marking lists of names as a block - a real time-saver.

* a new index format where group-letter titles are inserted before each group of names:

A

Albatross
Ant hills

B

Beavers
Brown bears

* automatic application of one style sheet to group-letter titles and another style sheet to the body of the index. The index can be reformatted by modifying the two style sheets.

* the ability to put a "+" character as the first character of any name that is not to be reversed. The "+" is automatically removed from the resulting list.

Sonar Bookends InDex Pro is $395. Customers who bought a previous version of Sonar Bookends InDex Pro after February 1, 2003 can update for free, otherwise the update cost is $150.

A free demonstration copy of Sonar Bookends InDex Pro can be downloaded from Virginia Systems web site at: http://www.virginiasystems.com

Virginia Systems was founded in 1984 and specializes in document imaging, text retrieval, automatic index-generation, cross-referencing, and footnote software.

For further information, contact: Virginia Systems, 5509 West Bay Court, Midlothian, VA 23112-2506, Phone: (804) 739-3200, FAX: (804) 739-8376, Email: sales@virginiasystems.com, URL: www.virginiasystems.com