“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.

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n. A META-KEYWORD prefix meaning “TAB,” that's followed by a letter or symbol indicating under which TAB the referenced TERM belongs.

NOTE:

• ~~# = TAB for ENTRIES beginning with Non-alphabetic characters or symbols
• ~~A = TAB for ENTRIES beginning with letter “A”
• ~~B = TAB for ENTRIES beginning with letter “B”
•             .   .   .   (and so on...)
• ~~Z = TAB for ENTRIES beginning with letter “Z”
• ~~:: = TAB that includes “ALL” previous TABS (#, A-Z)
• ~~+ = TAB for “NEW,” provisional ENTRIES, pending integration into GLOSSARY
• ~~" = TAB for general “COMMENTS” unrelated to a specific ENTRIES
• ~~? = TAB for “HELP” ENTRIES

The prefix characters “~~” were selected because they naturally sort to the bottom of most of the “ENTRIES” listing you'll see atop each GLOSSARY page in the left-hand column. A number in parentheses follows, indication the total number of entries for that particular TAB. For example, “~~? (55)” indicates the HELP TAB has fifty-five ENTRIES. Clicking on that LINK is functionally the same as clicking on the page headline: it reloads all entries.

By the way, that parenthetical value under ENTRIES is a manually entered number, which you can cross-check by inspecting the automatically generated tally under the “KEYWORDS” listing, which you'll find lower down the left-hand side of the page.