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Re: ANN: Sorting frameMaker Glossaries with Enhance
Subject:Re: ANN: Sorting frameMaker Glossaries with Enhance From:walden miller <waldenm -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:Hedley Finger <hedley -dot- finger -at- ericsson -dot- com -dot- au> Date:Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:29:13 -0700
Hedley Finger wrote:
> >From time to time a plaintive cry for methods of sorting FrameMaker
> glossaries appears on this list.
> ...
> Until [da da] Enhance outliner from Sandybrook Software came to
> the rescue ...
You don't need Enhance to fix a broken glossary.
With FrameMaker, you can convert the entire glossary to a table (terms in one
column and defs in the other).
Then sort on column one.
All other fixes are just searching for specifics (cross references, the words "see
also", etc.)
I haven't used Enhance, so I have no reason to doubt that it is a wonderful tool.
On the other hand, I find that many writers do not stretch Frame to its fullest
potential.
Why buy two tools, when one suffices.
walden miller
Technical Documentation Manager
Vidiom Systems
Boulder Colorado
