; ALIAS.TXT ; ========= ; ; Here is an example alias definition for alias number "1". ; In this example, alias number 1 could be used to alias the ; U.S. Independence Day with this authoring statement: ; ; {alias 1, nnnn} ; ; where nnnn is the number of characters in the topic text to be ; aliased. ; ; For example, in the title's project file you would include this ; alias file with the ALIAS statement in the [OPTIONS] section: ; ; [OPTIONS] ; ALIAS = ALIAS.TXT ; ; Then, in a topic file you could author: ; ; {alias 1, 14}July 4th, 1776 ; ; to associate this alias with the text. ; ; After the title is compiled and viewed, a user could search ; for the date with a query that includes ; ; 07/04/1776 ; ; The search would highlight the text "July 4th, 1776" in the topic. ; ; Here's the actual alias definition: 1:2;0;07/04/1776 ; 1 is the alias number. ; 2 is the alias's data type - the date type in this case. ; 0 means that the alias text has no field statement type. ; 07/04/1776 is the alias itself. This is the topic text for which ; someone could search.