More than one Glossary 'book'

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Hello,
I would like to know if it is possible to have more than one Glossary lists or how to accommodate two separate Glossaries in PT. I have two separate lists (or Glossaries) that I don’t want to mix because they give explanations of different kinds. PT has only one book for Glossary (GLO) as Peripheral. So, I want to know how to include my List #2 in PT, but functioning just like List #1 (Glossary). I tried creating Extra book (XXA) and Name Index (NDX), but both don’t work. For XXA, for the entry I wanted to enter \xxa_…\xxa*, but it is not recognized as valid. For NDX, \ndx_…\ndx* is valid, but the link does not work.

Any help is appreciated.
Bayar

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I also would very much like help with this issue. I work on a project where the team wants to include a ‘glossary’ for regional variations in their language and also a normal glossary with terms like Ferisi. The first will be in the front of the publication and the other in the back.

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You can only have one book called “GLO”, but you have several other books (XXA-XXG) that can be used for producing other materials. You could put a second set of glossary files in one of those books.

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Thanks anon848905,

So if I create a second book, do I use the same \w markers for both sets? How will Paratext know what the link is pointing to?

anon310509

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You will not be able to link to the second book. The linking works with GLO.

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Okay anon848905,

Thanks so much. Because we want the links, I think we will keep everything in GLO up to the point it goes to DBL. Having two separate books is not necessary for App and DBL, I assume.

However, we will need to split the GLO book into two for print publications. I may have our colleague do that in publishing assistant, instead of creating a ‘for print’ version in Paratext. Is that what you would recommend?

anon310509

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Yes, you could do this at print time. You would want to make sure you use some kind of marker to distinguish the different terms. Not sure the best suggestion.

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