Expansion List

When linked to a Client Application, Instant Text gathers the most plausible expansions for the abbreviation you typed. The most plausible expansions are retrieved from the Current Glossary to populate two Expansion Lists:

• The Word Expansion List contains the most plausible Word Entries.

• The Phrase Expansion List contains the most plausible Phrase Entries.

Each Expansion List is displayed in its own Expansion Table:

• The Word Expansion List is displayed in the Word Expansion Table.

• The Phrase Expansion List is displayed in the Phrase Expansion Table.

If an Expansion List, has more expansions than an Expansion Table can display, only the top ones will be visible. To access the others, an Expansion Table can be scrolled.

Gathering Words

Gathering word expansions consists in scanning the Current Glossary for Word Entries with expansions that include the abbreviation you typed in their scope and rank them in the following order:

1. root matches: the expansion is the abbreviation plus a few other characters.
2. superset matches: the expansion contains the abbreviation.

In the following example we have typed s t r a d and the Word Expansion Table displays the expansions gathered in the Word Expansion List, illustrating the various types of matches and their order:

Gathering Phrases

Gathering phrase expansions consists in scanning the Current Glossary for Phrase Entries with short forms that include the abbreviation you typed in their scope and rank them in the following order:

1. exact matches: the short form matches the abbreviation exactly.
2. root matches: the short form is the abbreviation plus a few other characters.
3. superset matches: the short form contains the abbreviation.

In the following example we have typed t p w h and the Phrase Expansion Table displays the expansions gathered in the Phrase Expansion List, illustrating the various types of matches and their order: