You deal with different specialties in more or less regular patterns because you are dealing with a few different doctors and you have already compiled glossaries that are specific to these doctors, say Dr Jones.glo and Dr Lee.glo Includes will allow you to create glossaries that include these doctor-specific glossaries along with more general ones. For example, you may have the following includes in the glossary Dr Lee.glo:
[Glossary Dr Lee]
[include C:\InstText\Glossary\Cardiology.glo]
[include C:\InstText\Glossary\Medical Base.glo]
[include C:\InstText\Glossary\Address.glo]
[include C:\InstText\Glossary\Drug List.glo]The variant for Dr Jones differs only in the second line:
[Glossary Dr Jones]
[include C:\InstText\Glossary\Surgery.glo]
[include C:\InstText\Glossary\Medical Base.glo]
[include C:\InstText\Glossary\Address.glo]
[include C:\InstText\Glossary\Drug List.glo]These combined glossaries allow the use of all constituent abbreviations without having to switch from glossary to glossary, and also without having to merge glossaries. With Includes, the glossaries can be kept distinct and updated separately, which makes them much easier to maintain.
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