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From: emv@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: What does "which see" mean in documentation?
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Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 15:37:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 16 15:37:08 1987
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In article <313@uniq.UUCP> rjnoe@uniq.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) writes:
>In article <598@unmvax.UNM.EDU>, mike@turing.UUCP writes:
>> In article <932@ttidca.TTI.COM> spencer@.UUCP (David Spencer) writes:
>> >	What does "which see" mean?
>> This comes from the Latin abbreviation `viz.'  `Viz.' comes from the
>> verb `to see.' . . . . It means `which see,'
>
>No, "viz." is an abbreviation for the Latin "videlicet" which is an adverb
>meaning "namely".  What Spencer is after here is "q.v.", the abbreviation
>for "quod vide".  "See also" is a fairly good colloquial rendering of that.

What you're really after is a mark embedded in the text of your document
that says "if you want to find out more about this, look elsewhere" and
which provides a way to get to that "elsewhere" spot automagically.  Has
anyone built something like this?  It would be worth it even if only to
make index-building less of a chore.  

I have seen an automatic 'which see' facility in the Mac program 'guide',
a hypertext sort of thing, but it's not a satisfactory text editor in general.
 
Edward Vielmetti, U-Michigan Workstation Group, Ann Arbor MI
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