Re: tooltips and glossary

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Michael Saunders <odradek5@gmail.com> wrote:
> About glossaries:
>
> Thank you, everyone.  I'm not much of a TeXpert and certainly not a
> lua expert, but I'm trying to understand your different solutions and
> integrate them into a working system.  There seem to be three
> approaches:
>
> I. Willi Egger---synonym-based
> II. Marius---modified index
> III. Philipp Gesang---lua-based
>
> I. So far, Willi's synonym-based solution looks simple and promising.
> I imagine something like this:
>
> \definesynonyms[gloss][glosses][\infull][\inshort]%to make short
> glosses available for tooltips
> \definesynonyms[gentry][gentries][\infull][\inshort]%to connect
> headwords to entries
> \def\gdef#1#2#3{\gloss{#1}{#2}\gentry{#1}{#3}}
> \def\hint#1{\tooltip[middle]{#1}{\infull{#1}}}
>
>
> %then you have a file of definitions like this one:
>
> \gdef{vibrato}{a periodic fluctuation in pitch}{A periodic fluctuation
> of pitch, typically in the range 6--12~Hz.}
Synonyms are defined in
strc-syn.mkii (or strc-syn.mkiv, if you are using mkiv) ;
maybe it can help you in defining your own macros (just to avoid to
reinvent the wheel, possibly)


-- 
luigi
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