Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!utah-cs!utah-gr!umix!pepe!emv From: emv@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: What does "which see" mean in documentation? Message-ID: <629@umix.cc.umich.edu> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 15:37:08 EDT Article-I.D.: umix.629 Posted: Thu Jul 16 15:37:08 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 11:29:04 EDT References: <932@ttidca.TTI.COM> <598@unmvax.UNM.EDU> <313@uniq.UUCP> Sender: usenet@umix.cc.umich.edu Reply-To: emv@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor Lines: 23 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 emv@umix.cc.umich.edu ; seismo!umix!emv ; (313) 747-3744 Ann Arbor Art Fair '87 - "It's not art, and it's not fair"