Re: Automatic Glossaries

[Sean Wheller <sean enbaya co za>]

On Friday 09 January 2004 19:45, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:23, Sean Wheller wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can we use Automatically Generated Glossary in GNOME2 Documents?
> >
> > Will Yelp stylesheets handle it?
>
> I'm not sure how you expect glossaries to be generated automatically.
> The definitions have to come from somewhere.  While DocBook allows you
> to put glossterms inline, this is only for the purpose of linking to the
> appropriate glossentry in the glossary.
>
> There's no provision in DocBook for putting the glossdef inline in your
> content.  Even if there were, I wouldn't recommend using it, as it would
> be a content management nightmare.
>

Please see
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Glossaries.html

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/GlossDatabase.html

Sean Wheller