Printing separate glossary?

[Ericam]

Is it possible to print just a glossary? If so, can someone provide instructions? Thanks

[SteveS]

The process of creating a printed glossary is similar to that of creating the printed Table of Contents.

You can create a topic (called something imaginative like 'glossary', works for me ) and insert the glossary proxy. Add the glossary topic to your TOC, if you use the TOC for online documentation you may want to use a conditional tag to prevent the TOC from becoming a part of it. When Flare builds it will replace the proxy with an alphabetical list of glossary terms and their meaning.

If you only want a printed glossary, you can publish the printed documentation and only print the glossary pages.

I'm not in a position to try this, but a cleaner approach might be to create a new target with only the Glossary page from the main target. You might be able to do it using your main TOC with a conditional tag so that only the glossary topic is used in the build, but make sure all the topics containing glossary terms are not excluded by the use of other conditional tags. Or, you could use a new TOC for the 'glossary' target that only has your glossary topic on it. Provided you do not exclude a topic from a target it will be included in the build, regardless of whether it is in the TOC.

HTH

[andrew_s]

I am curious if this is still the best way to print (publish) a Glossary that's currently in Web Help to a PDF. I have Flare 7. Thanks.

[GregStenhouse]

Yes (separate topic with glossaryproxy, separate TOC containing that single topic, PDF target referencing that TOC). I can't think of any other way of doing it

[andrew_s]

I'm still trying to figure out how to do this. I followed your instructions above but the issue is that the Glossary in my Project is auto-generated so I don't see it as an .html file in the content browser, just the listing of entries. What am I not understanding? Thanks.

[Msquared]

Make a PDF target, create a new TOC, and add that TOC to the new target. Create a new topic and add it to the new TOC. In the new topic, add a glossary proxy (In Flare 9 this is Insert Proxy > Glossary Proxy, there will be a similar function in Flare 7 although the menu sequence may be different).

The glossary proxy is a placeholder which will be populated when the target is built with the contents of whatever glossary file or files you've associated with that target (check the Glossary tab for the target, and ensure that your glossary is selected as required).

To get nice output you may want to create a page layout file for your PDF target, and also define styles for some of the glossary items in your print layout medium.

[andrew_s]

Thank you, @Msquared, that did the trick, and perfectly I might add! Much appreciated.

[andrew_s]

Make a PDF target, create a new TOC, and add that TOC to the new target. Create a new topic and add it to the new TOC. In the new topic, add a glossary proxy (In Flare 9 this is Insert Proxy > Glossary Proxy, there will be a similar function in Flare 7 although the menu sequence may be different).

The glossary proxy is a placeholder which will be populated when the target is built with the contents of whatever glossary file or files you've associated with that target (check the Glossary tab for the target, and ensure that your glossary is selected as required).

To get nice output you may want to create a page layout file for your PDF target, and also define styles for some of the glossary items in your print layout medium.

Thanks, Msquared. That did the trick, and beautifully I might add! :)

[HCListon]

Hi --

I saw this phrase in your answer to another question:

"Create a new topic and add it to the new TOC."

THAT is the problem I am stuck on. I created a new topic, but I cannot figure out how to add it to my TOC and make it part of my existing project. Can somebody tell me how to do that?

Thank you!

[andrew_s]

Hi --

I saw this phrase in your answer to another question:

"Create a new topic and add it to the new TOC."

THAT is the problem I am stuck on. I created a new topic, but I cannot figure out how to add it to my TOC and make it part of my existing project. Can somebody tell me how to do that?

Thank you!

Here's how I did that (in Flare 7). Create a new TOC, and delete the two default books that are included so it is completely blank. Click on the Content Organizer and then drag-and-drop the Glossary topic that you created above to the right-hand pane (the TOC). If it's not the only content that you wish to publish, as it was in my case, then add it to wherever you want it to appear. Also, very important, don't forget to save the TOC after making the changes otherwise it will not publish correctly. :) I followed Msquared's instructions and it worked perfectly.