Re: Automatic Glossaries

[Eric Baudais <baudais kkpsi org>]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:47:29PM +0200, Sean Wheller wrote:
> 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-

Those links, I believe, refer to Norman Walsh's DocBook XSL
stylesheets.  Those stylesheets were too slow for Yelp.  Shaun has
made a new set of DocBook XSL stylesheets which are very fast.
However they do not support the auto role of the glossary element.

Eric Baudais

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