I am using Frame. I discovered a neat feature of FM 7.1 that helps a lot.
You can save a .FM file as XML, *even if it's unstructured*. It will use your paragraph and character tag names as elements, so if you're looking for all strings that you've marked with the character tag "Term", you just need to search for <Term>blah</Term>. Very handy! I have to caution you that since it's XML, it is *not* line-oriented. You can't use a typical search and replace tool (like "sed") that is line-oriented. Fortunately, I know how to handle this. Joe Joe Malin Technical Writer (408)625-1623 jmalin at tuvox.com www.tuvox.com The views expressed in this document are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of TuVox, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margul...@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 4:55 PM To: Joe Malin Subject: Re: Glossary tools Find and replace? I don't know whether you're in Word, Frame, or something else, but the logic is the same in any case. 1. Make a copy of the document (you're about to trash it, so this is strictly a scratch copy). 2. Search for everything that is NOT tagged with your special tag and replace it with a single space character. If you check the wildcards option in Word, you can search for NOT-something. 3. Search for a two spaces and replace with one space (or, if you have large quantities of white space left after step 2, search for ten spaces and replace with one space, then nine, then eight, ... then two). 4. When you're down to just your glossary words and single spaces between them, replace the spaces with hard returns and you're done. Joe Malin wrote: