RE: Word Question

[BMcClain -at- centura -dot- com]

Ken,

As one whom Eric has climbed all over for said negative feedback, allow me
to overcome some bad karma by trying to provide more detailed help.

"Generating a glossary" means, to me, identifying and defining certain words
and phrases.  That's pretty much just another kind of writing, and it can be
pretty hard, too:  The trickiest part is figuring out which terms the reader
will want to know the meanings of.

By starting with a concordance file, you'll have an exhaustive list of the
words you've used in your document.  From these, you can choose which are
the best ones to define.

A search for "concordance software" on AltaVista identified this URL, which
you may find useful:

http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/

It looks like a neat product...I'm thinking of buying it myself.

Again, since the word-identifying part of glossing starts out like indexing
does, you might want to skim through what's involved in indexing.  Besides
the F1-available help in Word, there's http://www.about.com.  Do a search
for "indexing."

Hope this helps.

Bill McClain
("Writers are always selling somebody out."  - Joan Didion)

-----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




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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
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<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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