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Creating a Topic for a Print Glossary

If you want your print-based output to include the glossary from your Flare project, you need to create a topic specifically for this purpose and insert a glossary proxy into it.

Examples

How to create a topic for a print glossary

1. Add a new topic as you normally would.
2. At the top of the topic, enter a title for your glossary. If you apply any of Flare's <h1> through <h6> tags to it, the glossary title will be displayed in the print TOC (if you create one).

3. Most likely, you will want to remove any text after the glossary title. Then, with your cursor placed in that location, select Insert>Proxy>Insert Glossary Proxy.

   The Glossary Proxy dialog opens.

4. If you want headings (e.g., A, B, C, D) to be added automatically at the top of each section in the glossary, click the down arrow in the Generate Headings field and select Yes.

5. (Optional) From the Stylesheet class field, you can select a style for the glossary.

   For example, you might create and use style classes if you want to generate multiple glossaries with different looks for each output. Otherwise, the glossary will use the style settings from the parent <MadCap|glossaryProxy> style. You can create a style class for this purpose in the Stylesheet Editor. To do this, select the MadCap|glossaryProxy style and click Add Class to create a class. The class will then be available from this field in the Glossary Proxy dialog.

   Note: If you want to affect the look of the individual entries in the generated glossary, you can also use the following in the Stylesheet Editor, which can be found by expanding the parent <div> tag: GlossaryPageDefinition, GlossaryPageEntry, GlossaryPageHeading, and GlossaryPageTerm. For example, if you want to use blue font for each term in the generated glossary, you can change the font color setting on the div.GlossaryPageTerm style class. See Using Styles to Change the Look of a Glossary.

6. Click OK. The proxy is added to the topic.

7. Press CTRL+S or click to save your work.

Note: For Adobe PDF, Microsoft XPS, and XHTML output, you can insert glossary-related Heading variables into page layouts. These variables let you automatically display glossary headings and terms at the top of pages. See Inserting Heading Variables Into Frames.

WHAT'S NEXT?

In addition to creating a topic for a print glossary, you can create a topic for a print TOC and/or a topic for a print index. Then you need to include these print topics in an outline TOC in your project.

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