Changing glossary to ???

[Ruediger Landmann]

On 06/21/2010 04:00 PM, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 06/21/2010 10:31 AM, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> <snip>
>> However, glossaries cannot be translated properly in a number of
>> languages -- notably Chinese and Japanese -- because we cannot yet sort
>> entries in those languages.
>
> Are we able to get publican to call an external sorter or external 
> string comparison utility?
>
> Am just thinking that it sounds like publican's present sorting method 
> is internally coded, and not how we need it to be.
>
> If we can get publican to call a script or utility with the strings 
> for sorting, plus accept the return values, would that let us leverage 
> from any other package which has the sorting algorithm right?  (even 
> if it's an ugly hack for the short term)

Publican presently implements the sorting that's built into DocBook 
itself. And yes, the solution to this will no doubt be to use external 
modules to provide sorting for at least Chinese and Japanese. The links 
on the Publican Wishlist point to some efforts in this direction that 
look promising.[0]

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome on the Publican mailing list.[1]

Cheers

Rudi


[0] https://fedorahosted.org/publican/wiki/WishList
[1] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list