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- From: Mike_Dustan@sfu.ca (Mike Dustan)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame,bnr.text.frame
- Subject: Re: Glossary building suggestions, anyone?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.222444.2107@sfu.ca>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 22:24:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug06.124007.9280@bnr.ca> Paul Boudreaux, paulbx@bnr.ca
- writes:
- >Does anyone have a suggestion on how to build a glossary? I want to
- >build a glossary of technical terms and acronyms as I am writing a
- >design document. However, the method I am using requires that I scroll
- >through my glossary appendix window to the approiate alphabetical place
- >before entering my new term. I would like to be able to enter the
- >terms in any order and then sort them alphabetically when I'm done.
-
- The way I do it (and I have a good-sized glossary) is to create a special
- Index. I insert markers of type Glossary (that's why they exist, right?)
- looking like:
-
- Obscure Term:nice clear explanation of term
-
- These are limited to 255 characters, probably because of some internal
- Frame limit, but you can get quite a lot in that much space. I usually
- put the markers nearby the discussion of the term for convenience. I
- then generate a Standard Index but change the suffix to GLO (so it
- doesn't wipe out my existing IX) and include markers of type Glossary.
- The whole thing comes out nicely sorted, but includes page numbers by
- default. Remove these by editing the stuff on the Reference pages to
- remove <$pagenum>. Tweak the format of the file until you like it and
- regenerate.
-
- You could leave the page numbers in for your proofreading copy so you can
- find your markers easily.
-
- Cheers
- Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
- Canada
-