HOW TO: BROWSE the GLOSSARY

 
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“ALL” TAB (::)

“ALL” TAB (::)

n. A collection point intended to duplicate all regular GLOSSARY ENTRIES currently found in the non-alphabetic (“#”) and alphabetic (“A” - “Z”) TABS to the “ALL” TAB'S left (27 TABS, total).

The “ALL” TAB is not intended to duplicate the ENTRIES under the three other TABS to its right, namely the NEW (“+”), COMMENTS (“"”), or HELP (“?”) TABS. To individually search or keyword any one of those additional categories, first go to their respective pages, accessed via the usual navigation TABS, above.

NOTE: The “ALL” TAB'S purpose is to allow SEARCHING and KEYWORD lookup for the entire GLOSSARY from a single, convenient point. Otherwise you'd have to do so in each TAB, and combine the results manually.

So, why not just have the “ALL” TAB? Who needs all those others? Well, I liked the idea of thumbing through the GLOSSARY letter by letter, and since there is no Blogger facility for hierarchical KEYWORDS or limiting the scope on SEARCHES, I thought I had to do it this way.

(TechNote: To avoid any potential penalties for massive amounts of redundant text, <meta content='noindex,nofollow' name='robots'/> is used to prevent web crawlers from scanning the “ALL” TAB'S duplicate ENTRIES.)

That said, why do two colons (“::”) represent “ALL”? Well, following my own backwards logic, it's because I used “+” to represent “NEW.” In the negative spaces among the four colon dots I saw a plus shape. Thus, “ALL” standard ENTRIES “plus” all “NEW” ENTRIES would yield a solid square block, or in other words, completeness. A stretch? All I can say is, it seemed to make sense at the time.

Known Issue

Known Issue

-. Yep. Some things I already know don't work the way they should, are incomplete, or are otherwise less than expected. No need to pile on complaints or COMMENTS for any of these items. I'll get to them as soon as possible.

NOTE: At this time, Known Issues include:

• Why is the “::” (ALL Entries) TAB not yet populated.
  
  Sorry—we haven't yet quite gotten to a point where that makes sense. See: what has to happen first is all the additions and updates (including attaching appropriate KEYWORDS and META-KEYWORDS, proofreading everything, and making corrections) need to be made to the rest of the TABS, A-Z, etc. Only then will the ALL Entries TAB get attention. That's because of the way we're doing things to “work around” Blogger's pre-disposition to date-oriented posting. We're using (hidden) dates to sequence the entries, and every one of them has to be entered manually. This means that to avoid going completely crazy, the ALL Entries TAB has to be filled in reverse sequential order. And that won't make sense until the rest of the GLOSSARY is stabilized. Otherwise it would be counter-productive.

“Patience, please...”

Known Issues would already be fixed except for the fact that yours truly, the AUTHOR hasn't yet found the time to get to them. So, please bear with us. Again, you needn't comment upon Known Issues unless there's a compelling reason, such as volunteering to help! Thank you in advance.

Search vs. Keyword

Search vs. Keyword

n. While SEARCHES gather any ENTRIES or POSTS that contain an exact string of specified characters, KEYWORDS are a little different. One might view them as predefined SEARCHES, that likewise operate within a single given BLOG, yet which will yield a harvest of POSTS that may not or may not contain any particular matching word or phrase. Instead, the results will all deal with the same topic, issue or characteristic identified by the KEYWORD. In essence, you've gathered all POSTS tagged with a particular identifier (KEYWORD) chosen my the AUTHOR.

NOTE: Always keep in mind that regardless of whether its a classic SEARCH or a KEYWORD lookup, the scope of both operations is limited to the BLOG you're presently in.

Thus, to SEARCH or KEYWORD the entire collection of GLOSSARY ENTRIES, you have to be on the “ALL” (::) TAB. Otherwise, you'll only get a subset of the wider range of possible results.