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Re: Glossary database
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Glossary database
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 11:05:53 -0500
- References: <200001271047.LAA22566@ezili.sis.pasteur.fr>
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/ Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> was heard to say:
| On Wednesday 26 January 2000, at 11 h 0, the keyboard of Jorge Godoy
| <godoy@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
|
| > Has anybody here implemented something such as a glossary database? I
| > was thinking about having some files with glossterms and including
| > just the necessary definitions on each book.
|
| I'm afraid this cannot be done in pure SGML (there is no
| BibTeX for SGML) and you have to rely on external processing
| with M4 or ePerl or similar.
Well, it's really a matter of processing expectations, isn't it?
One could write a stylesheet that had this result. But maybe that's
not pure SGML either :-)
Cheers,
norm
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