If you are using Markers to expand, you may as well skip this page as the Shorts Glossary is only used when you are using Phrase Expanders to expand, which is the case when you expand with the space bar for example.
The Shorts Glossary is a special glossary that is automatically included in all glossaries of the Glossary List in order to avoid unwanted expansions. An example is probably the best way to show how it works.
Imagine you have the following Phrase Entry in your Current Glossary:
| Short form | Long form |
|---|---|
You may want to type the pronoun we
followed by a space, and instead you get without
ectopy followed by a space. To avoid this, you
need the following
Shorts Glossary Entry
in your Shorts Glossary:
| Short form | Long form |
|---|---|
The
Shorts Glossary is always automatically
included before
the entries of your Current Glossary. As a result:
will
be displayed before
Hence, you can type we followed by a space without fearing to end up with an unwanted expansion.
If we want to expand without ectopy, we can still type we followed by the digit 2 and a space (see line number selection).
The Shorts Glossary contains entries for all the short words such as we, as, is, on, of, ...
You can view the Shorts Glossary in the Glossary Viewer using the View shorts glossary menu item in the Glossary Menu.
You can add, edit, delete entries of the Shorts Glossary in the Glossary Viewer.