RE: Word Question

[jgarison -at- ide -dot- com]

What I *think* you're asking for is something like a full-text search - you
enter a word and the system provides you with a link to every page that
contains that word.

There are products out there that do this.

I use ForeHelp to produce HTML-based help, and it contains an FTS "engine"
that will find every topic that contains a specific word. I don't know if
it's unbundled, but there are doubtless other tools out there that do the
same thing. (Way back in 1995 or 96 when I created my first HTML-based help
system I used such a tool I found an the GNU site - it might still be
there.)

And ... a concordance is a listing of every word in a work. There are
concordances of Shakespeare, for instance, that record exactly how many
times each word is used in the entire body of his writing.


John



-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Bowes [mailto:KBowes -at- dacg -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 10:32 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Word Question




<snip>
What's ludicrous is expecting software to create the content of that
glossary, which is what the original post requested.

=============================
 David M. Brown - Brown Inc.
    dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
=============================
<snip>

Mr. Brown,

Obviously, Mr. Brown, this was a ludicrous question.  I'm sorry for wasting
your time.


Now, for anyone else out there,  I have no experience with any software that
might assist me in trying to generate a glossary, (or base thereof) for a
document that is already in existence.

My question was, is it possible, and if so what is it?? 

I had never heard the term concordance before..so, after receiving a reply
with that term, I searched for it on the web...didn't find anything that I
could use.

Personal comment...

Like quite a few others have stated recently, the more elite, successful
folks on the list seem to be getting very touchy lately about questions that
are beneath them.  It is very disheartening to those who are new to the
profession and do not know what the latest technological advances are, to be
getting negative feedback in the way it has been given.  Maybe those folks
should ask Eric to limit the membership to the ones who can only ask
questions they approve of.

Ken Bowes
KBowes -at- dacg -dot- com

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