Changing glossary to ???

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Mon Jun 21 20:25:33 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:34:51PM -0400, Eric Christensen wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> 
> > On 06/20/2010 01:58 AM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
> >> I'm working on the Jargon Buster.  The old XML contains tags that are no
> >> longer used.  It appears to create a glossary.  So what replaces the
> >> tags that are there?
> >> 
> > The validity problem was that the <section> that contained the <glossary> 
> > lacked a <title>. I've fixed the validity problem (and cleaned up the rest of 
> > the XML a little) and it builds fine.
> >
> > However, glossaries cannot be translated properly in a number of languages -- 
> > notably Chinese and Japanese -- because we cannot yet sort entries in those 
> > languages. The output from Publican ends up with entries in a completely 
> > jumbled order. (In fact, the characters are being sorted according to their 
> > unicode codepoints, but this appears  completely random to a human reader.)
> >
> > We have a long-standing bug against Publican to find a solution [0], and 
> > we're slowly chipping away at it as time allows, but it's non-trivial. Note 
> > also its appearance on the Publican wishlist, that links to some newly-found 
> > work that might help [1].
> >
> > In the meantime, the only safe solution is not to use DocBook for any such 
> > content, where information is simply sorted according to alphabetical order. 
> > Until the translation issues can be solved, the Wiki is a much better place 
> > for this type of material.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Rudi
> >
> >
> > [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475684
> > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/publican/wiki/WishList
> 
> So how do you propose we put together the Jargon Buster?  I understand the 
> problem but I don't really know what to do with it.

If Rudi's suggesting moving it to the wiki, I'm a bit sad, since I
spent a lot of personal time XML'ifying it from the wiki some time
back.

Does this not help at all?
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/GlossarySort.html

If we're not using any glossdiv to divide up entries, will
glossary.sort work?

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