Glossaries in Instant Text 8

You may have noticed that the Glossary menu has changed. Some items have been shifted to the new
Glossary Viewer menus, and the list of special glossaries you can view via the Glossary menu has increased.

The special glossaries (Hotkey, Pick, Snippet, Typo,...) are of a different type than the regular glossaries
(Words n' Phrases) showing in the Glossary list. They work in the background and have particular functions that work whatever the current glossary is you use. The Typo glossary, for instance, corrects your typos. The Shields glossary protects you from unwanted expansions when using the space to expand. The Hotkey glossary allows Short forms to be hotkeys or key combinations such as F8 or Alt=. The Pick Glossary offers pick lists you can call upon with the Pick command within a glossary entry.

Until now you could have only one of each special glossary. Now you are no longer limited to one unique glossary file. You can use somebody's Pick Glossary and try it out by including it to yours. You can create a special glossary with acronyms that functions like a Typo glossary, and include it to the Typo glossary. Logically the glossaries you combine via the Includes need to be, of course, of the same type.

Looking at the Glossary Viewer menu you may realize that it is now there where all the action is when you want to manage and work on your glossaries. To create a new glossary you go to File->New and check the glossary type. Then you save it to the provided folder or any folder of your choice:
Glossary
#Hotkeys
#Picks
#Typos
etc.
General
Medical
Legal

As Kim found out, clicking as usual on New in the Glossary menu is a quick way to create a new glossary, but this only creates a new Words 'n Phrases glossary to be added to the Glossary list.