#### 15.9.1.2 Identifying the starting element for glossary topics

For glossary topics (DITA version 1.1+ only), the required starting element is <glossterm>. Unless the default topic type is glossary, you must tell Mif2Go that the topic start is the paragraph format mapped to glossterm in [DITAParaTags].

You do not have to specify parents for glossary elements, because <glossterm> and <glossdef> can have only <glossentry> as parent; and you do not have to specify an element level for the format mapped to glossterm, because it will always be level 1.

Glossary in a separate file

If the glossary for your document is in a separate FrameMaker file, not mixed with other types of topics, create a file-specific configuration file glossfile.ini, and include in it the following setting:

[DITAOptions]

DefTopic = glossary

See §15.9.2.2 Specifying a default DITA topic type.

Setting the default topic type to glossary tells Mif2Go that the topics in the current file start with the paragraph format mapped to glossterm in [DITAParaTags]:

[DITAParaTags]

ParaFmt = glossterm

See §15.4.3 Mapping paragraph formats to DITA block elements.

Glossary mixed with other topics

If the glossary for your document is in a FrameMaker file that includes other topic types, you must make the starting paragraph format for the glossary topic different from the starting formats for all other topic types in the file; and you must assign topic type glossary to that format in [DITATopics]. For example:

[DITATopics]

; Every GlossaryTerm paragraph begins a glossary topic:

GlossaryTerm = glossary

[DITAParaTags]

; Every glossary topic begins with a <glossterm> element:

GlossaryTerm = glossterm

Definition = glossdef

| 15.9.1.1 Identifying starting elements for non-glossary topics |  | 15.9.1.3 Preventing the first paragraph format from starting a topic |