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Comments can appear on any line. Meanwhile, the comment character
(B<#>) should be the first character on the line (with no spaces
before).  Comments line span to the end of the line (until the first
carriage return).

Processing instructions lines, like comments, should start with the
percent sign (B<%>). We describe these instructions later on this
document.

Terms definitions can't contain any empty line because they are used
to separate definitions from each other. On the first line of term
definition record should appear the defined term. Next lines defines
relations with other terms. The first characters should be an
abbreviation of the relation (on upper case) and spaces. Then, should
appear a comma separated list of terms.

There can be more than one line with the same relation. Thesaurus module will

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=item B<SN> - Scope Note

Text. Note of context of the current term. Use for definitions or
comments about the scope you are using that term.

=back

=head2 Processing Instructions

Processing instructions, as said before, are written on a line starting
with the percent sign. Current commands are:

=over 4

=item B<top>

When presenting a thesaurus, we need a term, to know where to start.
Normally, we want the thesaurus to have some kind of top level, where
to start navigating. This command specifies that term, the term that
should be used when no term is specified.