RE: Word selection and highlighting for glossaries

Subject: RE: Word selection and highlighting for glossaries
From: "Marguerite Krupp" <mkrupp -at- cisco -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:59:15 -0400


Hi Rebecca!

I used to italicize the first occurrence of such terms, but that's not the
company standard where I now work. We do have a corporate glossary of terms,
accessible online (but you have to know it's there), but IMHO (and I helped
compile one such glossary), it's too far removed from the user's immediate
need to do much good.

So, as usual, "it depends." I agree that all that bolding is ugly. If you
make it obvious that the term's definition appears in context immediately
after the first occurrence of the term (and maybe say so in the Preface),
you should be OK without any typographical enhancement. I do think it's
useful to include such terms in the Index, usually (if you can slip it by
the editorial/template police) with an indicator that points specifically to
the definition; for example, "obscureterm (defn.), 1-7."

HTH,
Marguerite



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Word selection and highlighting for glossaries: From: Stevenson, Rebecca

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