Re: Automatic Glossaries

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 13:47, 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

Ugh, that's hardly creating a glossary automatically.  It's just a very
bad way of including an external glossary file.  If you want to keep the
glossary in an additional file (which I consider to be a good idea) then
what's the problem with just including it with XInclude?  I don't see
any need to abuse the format here.

--
Shaun