Re: Auto-generating glossary

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

I am not too happy about this. In many cases, I do not want the
description of the term to appear in text at all - it should go to
glossary *only*. Moreover, I'd prefer to have one common glossary for
most of gnome docs - I do not want to describe what URL stands for in
every doc I write - it suffices to do it once in the common glossary and
provide some way of looking up the word "URL" in this glossary (whihc
has not been done yet...). Having
each doc produce its own glossary will lead to the same term appearing
in many individual glossaries with different descriptions, which is
confusing to the user. 

Sasha

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:59:02PM -0500, Kevin Breit wrote:
> 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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