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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: KDE Glossary
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-04-30 13:13:56
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On Monday, 30. April 2001 14:48, Frerich Raabe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been working on a KDE-wide glossary lately (which bases on the
> glossary used on http://www.kde.de). I uploaded the current docbook file to
> http://frerich.derkarl.org/glossary.docbook so that those who are
> interested can have a look. Two issues have come up so far:
>
> a) As I expect the glossary to become rather big as people add entries, I
> divided it into several sections, each section corresponding to a letter in
> the alphabet. This might become problematic for the translators as the
> translated expressions probably start with a different letter and should
> therefore be moved to the respective section of the glossary. This is only
> possible by editing the docbook by hand, so the po2xml stuff cannot be used
> for the glossary AFAICS. Any ideas how to solve this?
I think doing sorting by alphabet is a bit nonsense, sorting by logical 
groups makes much more sense if you want to sort at all. Sorting by alphabet 
can be done by some software using this glossary.
>
> b) It was suggested to implement the glossary in the KHelpCenter by adding
> a third tab to the panel at the left; this additional tab could act as an
> index, and clicking on a letter or word would show the corresponding
> glossary entry at the right. Are there any concerns why this is an
> unfortunate idea? Alternative approaches?
>
> If there are no major issues left, I'm about to commit the file to
> kdebase/doc/glossary so that people can work on it.
>
You still didn't tell me why you don't want them in doc/khelpcenter/glossary, 
up to now kdebase/doc/* is all about applications

Greetings, Stephan

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