Vika Gardner wrote:
What in a glossary are you looking for that NWEx isn't doing?
I am working on my dissertation, which is chock full of
20-character names with diacritics. Being the lazy typist that I
am, I set up shortcuts in the spell-checker (look under
Preferences => Quick Fix) so that I could type BDN and get Baha
al-Din Naqshband with full diacritics, for instance.
I am aware of this spell-checker function. It is fundamentally the same
as the glossary function in 6.5. The big difference (perhaps the single
difference) is that 6.5 allows for multiple glossary/dictionary/typo
files (whatever you want to call them) while Express only has the one.
I translate patents, and create a new glossary file, starting from a
standard one of my own creation, for *every* job. A few years may go by
and I need to revisit the same job, in which case I reload the same
glossary file.
Essentially, the ability to have multiple user-defined
glossary/dictionary files open, usable, and editable with macros at any
time would meet my needs.
Presently I use macros to register the glossary entries from different
kinds of lists (maybe a single entry, or a list of comma-delimited
entries, or a list of entries in the format abbreviation-tab-expanded
text-CR, for example). That lets me define dozens of new entries in very
little time. I need the same functionality in Express for it be usable.
Cliff Bender
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