[Typo3-doc] Re: Inline glossary in TYPO3 backend

Sylvain Viart sylvain at ledragon.net
Mon Dec 13 12:25:52 CET 2004


Hi,

Sylvain Viart wrote:

> I will complete the Wiki page as soon as I've more information about it.

The page is: (nothing new from me, right now)
http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/EXT/glossary

Kasper has given me more information about XML mapping and Glossary term:

> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> I think it is nice having that converter. Even if the wiki is stored in
> a blob, if authors follow formatting rules it is still reasonable to
> extract the information.
> 
> The glossary is basic in CSH:
> 
> You can pick a category in which the term is shown. As you can see I
> have given an example of two categories which I thought would be
> reasonable: "TYPO3 glossary" for TYPO3 specific words (what is uid,
> pagetree, TypoScript) and "WEB glossary" for web specific words (what is
> XHTML, what is XML, what is stylesheets). If you need more categories
> I'm sure you can figure out how to add it by the example of the
> "t3glossary" extension.
> 
> Other than that, each word has a title and a description, possibly
> "details" which is a longer text and possible images/image caption. See
> other CSH for these features. You will have to map your glossary content
> into this model. My suggestion is that the "alttitle" is used for the
> word itself, while the description is used for most explanations. If
> some words have a lengthy explanation it would be better to put that
> under "details". Finally, links between words can be achieved with the
> "seeAlso" feature of CSH.
> 
> If you think this requires a lot of knowledge of CSH you can read all
> you need to know in the "Inside TYPO3" and study the plenty ful examples
> you find in the system extension "context_help".
> 
> - kasper
-- 
Regards,
Sylvain Viart -- TYPO3 DocTEAM.
http://wiki.typo3.org/



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