Re: [docbook-apps] Automatic glossaries and seealso

Hi David,

This is a limitation of the current implementation 
of the automatic glossary.  See this doc for more details:

 

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/GlossDatabase.html#LinksGlossCollection

 

It suggests also reading this parameter reference 
page:

 

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/glossary.collection.html

 

Fixing this would likely require a redesign of the 
automatic glossary processing.  You can go ahead and file a bug report on 
the SourceForge tracker to get it in the queue.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


 

 

  
----- Original Message ----- 

  
From: 
  David 
  Goss 

  
To: DocBook Apps 

  
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 11:43 AM

  
Subject: [docbook-apps] Automatic 
  glossaries and seealso

  

  

  
I?m using <glossary role=?auto? /> to generate a 
  glossary for multiple documents from the same source.

  
 

  
This works great, unless I use a glossterm in the document 
  that contains a <glossseealso> element. When this happens, I get the 
  ?See also? reference in the generated glossary, but if the glossterm was not 
  used in the document, the reference term isn?t in the glossary.

  
 

  
Example:

  
My document contains:

  
                
  <glossterm>heating</glossterm>

  
My glossary has 
  <glossseealso>cooling</glossseealso>

  
So when I run the stylesheets, I get ?See also, cooling? 
  under the entry for heating, even though ?cooling? isn?t in the generated 
  glossary.

  
 

  
I would either like to automatically add the term to the 
  generated glossary or remove the seealso reference for terms that are not 
  used.

  
 

  
(Could this also be a bug? It doesn?t seem like expected 
  behavior.)

  
 

  
DAVID GOSS 
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