Sample REF file created by SREF program ======================================= SYNONYM Text describing contents of file yyy synonym Text describing contents of file xxx PHRASE phrase phrase Text describing contents of file yyy phrase phrase phrase Text describing contents of file xxx WORD Text describing contents of file yyy word Text describing contents of file xxx word2 Text describing contents of file xxx Comments: This appears to be simple with two files. With hundreds of files, this format helps you quickly add links between each of the ASCII files that share common words, phrases, or ideas. One side note: I've inserted a leading space before all my synonym entries to separate my semantic entries (representing meaning) from the linguistic entries (highlighted words or phrases). Having built many hypertext systems, rather than highlight words and phrases, I usually enter my own language rather than the literal words or phrases. References: ------------------------------------------- Ideas, Screen display for indexing Ideas, How to identify Ideas, Using the MARK to index Ideas, Sample output from MARK program sorting sorting sorting ideas sorting ideas