On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:34:51PM -0400, Eric Christensen wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Ruediger Landmann wrote: > > > On 06/20/2010 01:58 AM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote: > >> I'm working on the Jargon Buster. The old XML contains tags that are no > >> longer used. It appears to create a glossary. So what replaces the > >> tags that are there? > >> > > The validity problem was that the <section> that contained the <glossary> > > lacked a <title>. I've fixed the validity problem (and cleaned up the rest of > > the XML a little) and it builds fine. > > > > However, glossaries cannot be translated properly in a number of languages -- > > notably Chinese and Japanese -- because we cannot yet sort entries in those > > languages. The output from Publican ends up with entries in a completely > > jumbled order. (In fact, the characters are being sorted according to their > > unicode codepoints, but this appears completely random to a human reader.) > > > > We have a long-standing bug against Publican to find a solution [0], and > > we're slowly chipping away at it as time allows, but it's non-trivial. Note > > also its appearance on the Publican wishlist, that links to some newly-found > > work that might help [1]. > > > > In the meantime, the only safe solution is not to use DocBook for any such > > content, where information is simply sorted according to alphabetical order. > > Until the translation issues can be solved, the Wiki is a much better place > > for this type of material. > > > > Cheers > > Rudi > > > > > > [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475684 > > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/publican/wiki/WishList > > So how do you propose we put together the Jargon Buster? I understand the > problem but I don't really know what to do with it. If Rudi's suggesting moving it to the wiki, I'm a bit sad, since I spent a lot of personal time XML'ifying it from the wiki some time back. Does this not help at all? http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/GlossarySort.html If we're not using any glossdiv to divide up entries, will glossary.sort work? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
