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Re: [docbook] glossary


Hi Dave,
I think my question wasn't very clear.  I understand that it is a print book
with page numbers.  What I wasn't understanding is what element in the body
of the book that the reference from the glossary is pointing to.  Is it to
be a firstterm element, an inline glossterm, a section, a para, or what?
When the reader follows the page reference from the glossary, what do they
find?

I often use page references from a glossary, but usually to a section that
provides further information about the glossary entry.  I just add an xref
at the end of the glossdef paragraph.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Pawson" <davep@dpawson.co.uk>
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: "Docbook List" <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook] glossary


> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 17:38 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> > I'm not clear what the page reference is referring to within the book.
> Oops. Sorry Bob its not an electronic page,
> its one of those old fashioned dead tree pages in a print book
> that some publisher owns?
>
> >  Can
> > you do it with an xref in the glossentry to something in the body of the
> > book?  If you just want a page number, you could use an xrefstyle
attribute
> > to get the output you want.
>
> I'm currently processing with a custom xsl stylesheet...
> I'm curious if its common,
> or just me being difficult (don't answer that.... pls)
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Dave Pawson
> XSLT + Docbook FAQ
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
>
>
>



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