Glossary upper case vs. lower case

[bdietz]

Good afternoon,

I've got my glossary terms beginning with upper-case letters, and I have my file set up to make the first reference on a topic a popup glossary definition. That works fine, but only if the word in the topic begins with an upper-case letter. Is there any way to apply the glossary link to the word whether it's in upper or lower case?

Thank you

[wclass]

Flare glossaries are case-sensitive! This has been a problem for many years - many people have reported it (e.g. me in 2008) but still no change. You can add your name to the bug report list at:
https://www.madcapsoftware.com/feedback/bugs.aspx

[pajlee]

Here is the deal:
We want to release a stand-alone online/printed version of our Glossary. However, because of case-sensitivity and plurals, etc. we end up with several entries for the same word. What we would like is all of the same entries grouped together with only one definition.

Does anyone know if there is any way to group the entries?

Paige Lukens-Gray
Sr. Documentation Writer
CSG International

[Thomas Tregner]

You can use a transformation (XSLT) on the glossary to create a copy which includes only the first term for a definition in a glossary entry. Then you can use the copy for the stand-alone version. Here is the transformation:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
>
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="Terms">
    <Terms>
      <Term>
        <xsl:value-of select="Term"/>
      </Term>
    </Terms>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here is a link to download a free Microsoft utility to apply XML stylesheets:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... x?id=21714

From a command line, you can run the utility to apply the stylesheet to a glossary using a command like this:
msxsl "TestGlossary.flglo" "ConvertGlossary.xslt" -o "NewGlossary.flglo"

[pajlee]

Thanks Thomas!!!! I will give this a try!

Paige