Re: DOCBOOK: WAS:Re: DOCBK: ext file entities, IS: anchorage and pdf-output S-DocBook

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Inge <telmin@ol.telia.no> was heard to say:
| Q: perhaps the most trivial (this week):
| And as usual i ask for forgiveness, -i can't get the book,
| ("DocBook: The Definitive Guide") in time for something which
| is due one week from now..! And i have no-one but this list of
| strangers to ask..

You can get the book right now: http://docbook.org/tdg/

| In "real" docbook there is the anchor element, which i think is what i need for linking internally in a document.
| This is not present in simplified docbook. (I am right!)

That's probably right. Anchor is rarely needed, though. Usually what
you want to link to is already an object of some sort (chapter, section,
paragraph, figure, etc.) so you can just use the ID of that thing.

<para>
Anchor is only needed if you want to link <anchor id="foo">to the
middle of a paragraph.
</para>

| I have a list of obscure words.
| These words are used throughout the document, naturally, and i want hyperlinks from where they occur to their respective explanation in the list.
| (very traditional means of hyperlinking)
| What can i do to achieve this?
| (i know i even could use html, but that is not what i want ...)

Probably what you want is glossterm.

You can use <glossterm linkend="obsdef">obscure</glossterm> words
and let the stylesheet link them.

| best would be: Is there any xsl readymade and publicly available for me to utilize?

http://nwalsh.com/docbook/xsl/

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | A book is like a garden carried in
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