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terminological and other messing about
Apr. 13th, 2005 05:23 pmI think I'm about to embark on a fool's errand, but if it works, it'll make my life considerably easier. What I'm going to try to do is make a MS Word-formatted index out of an XML file.
See, MultiTerm will export glossary entries as XML files, but that's not going to help me very much, because a raw XML file is a pain in the ass to read. I've been given permission to not use MultiTerm any more, which is nice because it means I don't have to go chain myself to a computer in the lab. I want a glossary I can actually look at and say "All right, I've got 58 entries, that's enough", instead of having to remember that the entry number in MultiTerm isn't the number of terms because it counts references to publications as entries, and having to change input models to find out how many reference entries I've got, and...well, it's a pain in the ass, is what it is.
Playing with that ought to keep me busy between the coffee hour and the project management lecture tomorrow. If anybody has any brilliant advice about how NOT to do this the hard way, I'd love to hear it. (My current idea is to go back to MultiTerm and see how much of a pain it is to export the glossary as an HTML file. I know Word does nasty things to HTML, but I'm hoping that's only if you're writing HTML in Word to begin with, in which case you really shouldn't.)
I know that most of the entries I have are completed; I just don't know how many I've got. If I really do have 58, I can finish the incomplete ones in a couple of days and stop thinking about the glossary altogether. I just pulled that number out of the air, though. I need 50, and I think I'm close to that, but I can't tell.
I also have to rewrite my resume again, pursuant to the workshop we had last week. I was smart enough to bring a copy of my resume to the workshop and write changes on it, but I haven't gotten around to actually changing them yet. Today's workshop was about cover letters and interviews, and it really didn't need to take an hour. I got about fifteen minutes of good information out of it, and spent the other 45 chewing on the end of my pen and trying not to strangle one of my project management groupmates, who managed to monopolize the discussion to the point where the speaker started ignoring her. I wish I hadn't bothered to go.
I'm really going to have to grow a brain one of these days.
See, MultiTerm will export glossary entries as XML files, but that's not going to help me very much, because a raw XML file is a pain in the ass to read. I've been given permission to not use MultiTerm any more, which is nice because it means I don't have to go chain myself to a computer in the lab. I want a glossary I can actually look at and say "All right, I've got 58 entries, that's enough", instead of having to remember that the entry number in MultiTerm isn't the number of terms because it counts references to publications as entries, and having to change input models to find out how many reference entries I've got, and...well, it's a pain in the ass, is what it is.
Playing with that ought to keep me busy between the coffee hour and the project management lecture tomorrow. If anybody has any brilliant advice about how NOT to do this the hard way, I'd love to hear it. (My current idea is to go back to MultiTerm and see how much of a pain it is to export the glossary as an HTML file. I know Word does nasty things to HTML, but I'm hoping that's only if you're writing HTML in Word to begin with, in which case you really shouldn't.)
I know that most of the entries I have are completed; I just don't know how many I've got. If I really do have 58, I can finish the incomplete ones in a couple of days and stop thinking about the glossary altogether. I just pulled that number out of the air, though. I need 50, and I think I'm close to that, but I can't tell.
I also have to rewrite my resume again, pursuant to the workshop we had last week. I was smart enough to bring a copy of my resume to the workshop and write changes on it, but I haven't gotten around to actually changing them yet. Today's workshop was about cover letters and interviews, and it really didn't need to take an hour. I got about fifteen minutes of good information out of it, and spent the other 45 chewing on the end of my pen and trying not to strangle one of my project management groupmates, who managed to monopolize the discussion to the point where the speaker started ignoring her. I wish I hadn't bothered to go.
I'm really going to have to grow a brain one of these days.
