Creating and Editing Jabberwocky Sets

Jabberwocky uses sentence patterns and Jabberwocky sets to create gibberish. To achieve the most realistic gibberish, keep in mind the basic rules of grammar when creating your own Jabberwocky sets. The Notes area at the bottom of the Jabberwocky Dictionary dialog box provides information on how each part of speech is used.


Creating a Jabberwocky set

The Edit Jabberwocky Sets dialog box operates like the Edit Style Sheets dialog box in QuarkXPress. However, sets do not travel with a document; you must import/export them to use them with other copies of QuarkXPress (see Exporting and Importing Jabberwocky Sets).

1. Choose Edit —> Jabberwocky Sets to display the Edit Jabberwocky Sets dialog box.

 














2. To create a new Jabberwocky Set, click New. The Jabberwocky Dictionary dialog box is displayed.

 





















3. Enter a name for the new set in the Set Name field.

4. Choose a part of speech from the Part of Speech pop-up menu. The definition of the selected part of speech is displayed in the Notes area.

5. Enter a word in the word field and click Add to add it to the set.

6. Continue adding words to the dictionary. You can add different words to the different parts of speech within one set. When you are finished, click Save to save the set.


Editing a Jabberwocky set

You can change the pool of words the random text is drawn from by editing a Jabberwocky set. To edit a Jabberwocky set:

1. Choose Edit —> Jabberwocky Sets to display the Edit Jabberwocky Sets dialog box.

2. Select a set and click Edit to display the Jabberwocky Dictionary dialog box.

 





















3. Choose a part of speech from the Part of Speech pop-up menu. The list of words in the set for that part of speech is displayed.

4. Choose a word and do one or more of the following:

• To remove the word from the list, click Delete.

• To change the spelling of the word, enter the correct spelling and click Add. Then delete the misspelled version of the word.

• To move a word to a different part of speech, add the word to the correct part of speech, then delete it from the wrong part of speech. 

5. Click Save to save changes to the set.