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Questions tagged [glossary]

list of terms and definitions used in a larger document

Questions with this tag commonly seek an automated tool for generating a glossary from the corpus.

What is a glossary? an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.

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How to create a glossary in Sphinx?

I try to make a glossary at the end of my book which contains also the headlines content of my documentation (without description, only a reference to the page). I want to get the headlines into a glossary. But headlines need 2 lines to work,…
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Using noindex with glossary in Sphinx

When using Sphinx 1.1.3, how can I create a .. glossary:: entry that does not show up in the automatically generated index? I tried :noindex: in four places: Before and after the glossary makes the glossary disappear. .. :noindex: glossary:: …
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Sphinx: How to link to terms in a glossary of a different project

I do understand how to create a glossary in Sphinx RST, and how to link to its terms: .. glossary:: term1 description of term1 Linking to :term:`term1` is easy. My question is, how can I link to terms in the glossary of a different…
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Rmarkdown glossary

I've a simple question. How i create a glossary with Rmarkdown / knitr. I work with RStudio. I try this but without success \usepackage{glossaries} in a header.tex and in rmd…
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Glossary items stopped linking to the actual word

I am currently writting a report and implemented a glossary using the \usepackage{glossaries} Everything was working great a few days ago : each word that required definition in my text was declared in my glossary and was linked with the…
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Restricting glossary functionality to particular parts of a site

We have the case where the usage of the Products.PloneGlossary glossary should be limited by content-type (which is working out of the box) and by path (glossary should be used only for /one/part/of/my/plone/site). Is there a way to do this?
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extracting technical keywords from a text document

Re-written: I have a corpus of computer science related documents. I want to extract domain specific keywords. for example JAVA, C#, HTML, OOP, UML, Unity, etc. I was looking for a source similar to Oxford dictionary for computing, however their…
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Online glossary - simple (free) approach

I am sitting on a CSV file containing around 3000 terms and definitions relating to a medical speciality. I'd like to provide the info online, in the form of a glossary. It needs to have the following features: Display all terms as a list, with the…
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Drupal 7: Create glossary with views, but sort it by a field other than the title?

I am trying to create a glossary view but the one that Views provides uses the first letter of the node's title. I need it to use the first letter of a field named Artist in my content type. I've tried making a new Contextual Filter and match it up…
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in latex, how to insert footnote on the first use of \acrshort command?

the footnote inserted for each \acrshort{gcd} but what expected is to insert the footnote on the first use of the command. like the \gls{gcd} command. when the \gls{gcd} command is used, the footnote only inserted on the first use of the…
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Is it possible to create "Glossary Categories" in Purview as was possible in Apache Atlas?

In Atlas, it was possible to create a hierarchy of categories and subcategories in the Glossary to partition all the Business Terms. Is there any way to create similar categories/sub-categories in Purview?
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Multiple (Nested) Roles in a Glossary

in my Sphinx docs I would like to create a glossary, potentially containing :math:, or other roles: .. glossary:: :math:`f(x)` Description Is there any way to reference this entry with a text that has the same style as the glossary…
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How to refer a glossary term defined in singular but expressed in plural?

If I define a glossary and a term called foobar, I can then use that term from text as This is a ref to the :term:`foobar` term. This will then make foobar into a clickable reference taking me to the glossary. However, what if I want to refer to a…
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How to build a proper translation glossary for a software product?

There are many platforms for translation software applications that allow community collaboration but there is still the question on how to create and maintain a translation glossary. It is highly recommended to create a glossary before starting to…
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Decent tool for producing a glossary of technical terms

I'm currently developing the front end of a new CMS for a digital streaming company, the main problem the project has is keeping track of the technical language that has sprung up around it. It currently involves around 60 staff in four countries,…
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