From The T.I.E.&M. Shop...
Dear George,
> I would like to see TSE able to do glossaries. I now use a text file to
> save multiple-use phrases and forms, and it works pretty well, but it would
> be nice to have TSE handle this in a database-type auto-key method. For
> instance, say
GdB> Hold on tight: we have something like this in TSE Pro. already,
GdB> it's just implemented in a slightly different manner.  The name of
GdB> the feature is Template, and is implemented as a macro that you
GdB> need to load (I'd recommend adding it to your macro AutoLoad List).
GdB> Here is how it works:
Well, I think that if I had lived back in the Aztec days, I would have been 
an early sacrifice to the God of Stupidity! :) ..er.. :(
Somehow, I had gotten the notion that the 'template macro' was intended for 
the development of other macros, and hadnt' really looked at it.
Man, there's probably treasure all around me, and I'm blind to it! Sheesh.
GdB> Does this do what you want?
Absolutely positively unequivacably YES. :)
> like to be able to hit 'Alt T T' to have my TSE spiel splashed into the
GdB> Curiosity: Why ?
Uh, I'm not sure...some subliminal suggestion from somewhere... although the 
two-keys would be nice for some of the glossary items, your Template names 
capability will be much more useful.
> Finally, I would love to see added to TSE a GrandView-like outliner
> capability. As I envision it in practice, TSE would remain pristine as it
> is now, with the ability to load an outline side-by-side with a file in the
> ring.
GdB> I definitely agree with this idea -- I've used both PC-Outline and
GdB> GrandView, and liked them quite a bit.  I'd really like to have
GdB> GrandView's hoist feature in here.  I started trying to come up
GdB> with a way to do outlines in TSE via macros, but haven't found a
GdB> good / workable way to implement it beyond a simple list processor.
It sounds like I'm asking for too much, but, not to worry, I don't complain 
if I don't get what I ask for. I mention ideas a few times in an open-ended 
manner, and if it never materializes, well, life goes on.
Obviously, it's hard to know what software programmers are working on for the 
future, but I once read a little paragraph in an old Herter's Hunting/Fishing 
Supply Catalog that suggested that his prices were so low on some products 
because he needed something for his workers to do in the "off season"...he 
would pay them to make kayaks and canoes and such like. :)
Asking you guys to "add an outline capability" to TSE might fit into the "off 
season" category :)  I imagine that it's not a heavily asked for feature, eh? 
:)
If "Outline" == "kayak" goto WorkHard
See you.
Larry
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