On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:15:09AM +1000, Ruediger Landmann wrote: > On 06/22/2010 06:25 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > My suggestion is moving it back to the wiki until we get the sorting > problems fixed. Long term, XML is definitely the right solution. Fair enough -- my personal disappointment is probably partly due to my not having enough foresight about handling this problem, or for that matter being aware of it. :-) > > Does this not help at all? > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/GlossarySort.html > > > > No; that's what we do now. It works fine for English, doesn't work at > all for Chinese and Japanese, and we haven't rigorously tested what > happens at the edges of other languages that use Latin script (keeping > in mind that not every language that uses the Latin script collates > letters the the same way that English does or orders them the same way > that English does all the time). > > We can fix most weirdness in alphabetic or syllabic writing systems > upstream in the DocBook locale files. Writing systems that use ideograms > are the present stumbling block. Yeah, good points all. This is a tricky problem. > > If we're not using any glossdiv to divide up entries, will > > glossary.sort work? > > > > glossdiv isn't the problem here (and we're not actually using it in this > case at all). You're right, however, that glossdiv makes thing much, > much worse, even in languages that use the same writing system.[0] > > [0] an illustration from the Publican User Guide -- > http://tinyurl.com/2gx4yq3 OK -- perhaps to make the transition easier, I could probably write a XSL snippet to get the glossary.xml file transferred quickly to wikitext. That would save someone else a bunch of extra labor, right? -- 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
