glossary (was: Re: GNOME 2 tasks)

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

Yes, sure - this is the <ulink>; in html, it produces a usual
link. But this is far from ideal. Suppose you have a long docs, in
which every now and then word "partition" (which is not an obvious
term for readers) appears.  Having each instance of this word linked
to the definition in glossary is not too convenient - it is a pain for
doc writers, it is distracting for readers (having too many links make
the document look funny - try it), and whenever you click on
such a link, you are taken to a different doc - glossary - and have to
go back to the original doc to continue reading, which probably means
loading it in doc browser again which could take some time. 

Ideal scenario: you right-click on any word you do not know, select
"look it up in the glossary", and if found, it'd produce a small
floating window containing the def'n of this word from the
glossary. Or the definition shows up in a separate pane of the doc
browser - something like this. 

How realistic is this? 

Sasha



On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 06:56:24PM -0400, Aaron Weber wrote:
> Hm... don't we have a way to link between documents?
> 
> On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 09:31, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> > Yes, mostly  we do want to have "The Glossary" rather than have word
> > "ASCII" defined in the glossary of each and every app. But it may still
> > make sense for some docs to have their own glossaries - for highly
> > specialized words that are unlikely to be used outside of this app, or
> > for words that in the context of this app have different meaning than
> > elsewhere? I do not know...
> > 
> > 
> > BTW: we still have not decided on any way to let the reader look up
> > the definition of a word in the glossary other than explicit <ulink>,
> > which is cumbersome (can you imagine a doc in which every instance of
> > the word "attachment" is a ulink?), or switching to the glossary and
> > manually looking up word there.   I remember there was some talk
> > about having command "look it up in the glossary" in a right-click
> > menu, or something like this - maybe we should resurrect this
> > discussion?  Or a special search box? Could we do it in time for 2.0? 
> > 
> > Sasha