Liquid | Glossary : Creating Entry
This is an outline for a dialogue box for creating a Glossary entry which appears after the user selects a keyword in a document and does a keyboard shortcut, such as cmd-y:
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'Selected Keyword'
Short/Twitter Description: [______]
this is what would appear in-sentence if reader-requested. User will be prompted to only include person's last name if the entry is for a person
Fuller Glossary: [__________________________________________________]
if this is a person, user will be prompted to write full name here
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Every field below is optional:
Category: [______]
this field acts very much like assigning tags in macOS: user can click on a list or add new tag
Highlight? •
whether or not this should be highlighted in the text on first appearance, if the author wants to emphasise this to the reader
Uses: [______]
how this text should be used
Related words: [______]
related words to click to also see
Show what this word is (dictionary lookup) such as verb etc. (user editable): [Pop-Up Menu \/]
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Video Entry for this Glossary Item:
Recorded video either stored locally or on YouTube, much like the exploratory project liquid dialogue
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Logic:
Mathematical logic: [______]
Programming logic/code: [______]
Only appears on save and open:
URL to this Entry: xxx
automatic inclusion, can be copied
First used in the sentence: xxx
automatic inclusion.
Append Comment: [______]
this only appears if the user has edited the entry later
{Link this entry to your own}
this allows the user to copy this entry over to their as an appended entry
Appended Comments: xxx
this only appears if the user has edited the entry later
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Very Experimental
Logic: [______]
• Use the current location when authoring, such a when using the term 'here'
• Use relative dates when authoring, such a when using the term 'today', 'now' and 'yesterday' etc.
• If referring to a specific Date in the future. Change grammar when passed this date.
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Automatically Assigned
URL to this entry: http:…. &glossary
Who has referred to this entry/cited it: [ Pop-Up Menu \/]
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