Auto-generating glossary
- From: Kevin Breit <battery841 mypad com>
- To: gnome-doc-list gnome org
- Subject: Auto-generating glossary
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 19:59:02 -0500
Hey guys,
Well, during my much relaxing bath, I had the great idea of an auto
generting glossary. Ya see, today we do db2html and let our hard disks whir
a few seconds. When we load the index.html file, the first thing we're shown
is a TOC. From what I can tell, the TOC is generated from the <sect> tags and
the <title> tags. Why don't we write a similar method for glossary? To keep
the people who write this from hating me, I will try to give some sort of an
example :) This is a segment of a made up SGML file I put together right now :)
Evolution's mail client is made to do
<glosssect>
<glossterm>email</glossterm>.
<termdef> Email is a way of electronically sending mail through the internet
for fast delivery instead of regular mail which takes hours, days, and even
weeks to deliver.</termdef>
</glosssect>
Okay, then when I generate the .sgml using db2html, the paragraph in text will
say:
"Evolution's mail client is made to do email. Email is a way of electronically
sending mail through the internet for fast delivery instead of regular mail
which takes hours, days, and even weeks to deliver."
Then, in the glossary, it'll say:
"Email - Email is a way of eletronically sending mail blah blah blah..."
You get my point. I think this would help get some extra organization going and
make creating a glossary easier for everyone!
What does everyone think?
Kevin
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