RE: Auto-generating glossary

["Phillip Shelton" <shelton usq edu au>]

How would you go about putting in text that you want in the glossary but not
in the flow of the text?

Phill

-----Original Message-----
From: gnome-doc-list-admin gnome org
[mailto:gnome-doc-list-admin gnome org]On Behalf Of Kevin Breit
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 10:59 AM
To: gnome-doc-list gnome org
Subject: Auto-generating glossary


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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