The Glossary Object

The Glossary object represents a glossary of terms in the printed and online documentation. It takes care of things like sorting the terms, help definition pop-ups, and how the glossary will be represented in both printed and online documentation.

Any Topic objects placed one level below a Glossary object are considered to be a glossary term, and as such will be sorted alphabetically. You may have additional levels under the Glossary object, however only the topics on the first level are treated as glossary terms.

When glossary terms are published into a printed document, they are automatically assigned a heading style of "Heading 5" regardless of what you have entered in the Document Heading Style property. Also, super header and all section break information is ignored.

To render glossary topics correctly in the Web formats, or HTML Help, ensure the topics are based on the correct Glossary Term template. The "Start new page" setting on the Web tab is not selected, and a Media object is not selected. This ensures Author-it creates the glossary as a single topic, but with links in the table of contents to the individual glossary terms in that page.