glossary problems...

nicole.redmond · ‎Mar 09, 2009

I am having problems formatting a glossary. I need my glossary to have two columns with space between them.

The 1<sup>st</sup> column should have the acronym and the second column should have the meaning.

My current out put looks like this:

BRBS Be right back soon
LOL Laugh out loud

What I want is this:

BRBS Be right back soon
LOL Laugh out loud

The “Be right back soon, and Laugh out loud. Should be aligned left. I tried quadding with no avail.

glossDiv

title B

glossentry BRBS

glossdef

para Be right back soon.

Does anyone have a suggestion or sample fosi code that might help?

My fosi looks like this:

<e-i-c gi="glossary">

conrule='!<atidmd:bookmark state="closed">!,preface-title.txt,chapter-sect-bookmarks.txt,!</atidmd:bookmark>!'

placemnt="after" append="1">

<usetext source="<lof-lot-toc.fmt">,\GLOSSARY (Continued)\,</lof-lot-toc.fmt>" placemnt="before">

</usetext>

</charlist></e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="glossdef" context="*" glossary"=">

<charlist charsubsetref="endline"></charlist>&revflag;</e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="glossdef">

<quadding inherit="1"></charlist>&revflag;</e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="glossentry">

</charlist>&revflag;</e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="glosslist">

charsubsetref="block standard-prespace standard-postspace"></charlist>

&revflag;</e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="glossterm" context="glossentry">

<charlist<p>

charsubsetref="keep-next startline bold hyphen-off left sans-serif">

</charlist>

<att>

<savetext textid="xref.txt" conrule="<xref.psu">,#CONTENT,</xref.psu>"

xrefidtag="glossentry">

conrule="<xref.psu>,page.txt,folio.txt[BO],</xref.psu>"

xrefidtag="glossentry">

<savetext textid="xref-txt.txt" conrule="<xref.psu">,#CONTENT,</xref.psu>"

xrefidtag="glossentry">

conrule="<linkresolve.psu>,</linkresolve.psu>" xrefidtag="glossentry">

</charsubset>

</att>&revflag;</e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="glossterm" context="glossentry" *=" glosslist"=">

<charlist<p>

charsubsetref="startline keep-next bold hyphen-off left sans-serif">

<att>

<savetext textid="xref.txt" conrule="<xref.psu">,#CONTENT,</xref.psu>"

xrefidtag="glossentry">

conrule="<xref.psu>,page.txt,folio.txt[BO],</xref.psu>"

xrefidtag="glossentry">

<savetext textid="xref-txt.txt" conrule="<xref.psu">,#CONTENT,</xref.psu>"

xrefidtag="glossentry">

conrule="<linkresolve.psu>,</linkresolve.psu>" xrefidtag="glossentry">

</charsubset>

</att>&revflag;</e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="glossterm">

&revflag;</e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="glosssee" occur="first">

</subchars>

</usetext>

</charlist>

<att>

</usetext>

</charsubset>

</att>

<att>

</usetext></charsubset></att>&revflag;</e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="para" context="*" glossdef"=">

<charlist inherit="1" charsubsetref="endline"></charlist>&revflag;

</e-i-c>

AndyEsslinger · ‎Mar 09, 2009

Nichole:

Looks like you want an alignment group or a "kernto" setup. If you
really mean two columns you probably need ALGROUP like this sample:

FROM DTD:

FROM FOSI:
<e-i-c gi="glosslist">
<charlist inherit="0">
<textbrk startln="1" endln="1">
</charlist>
</e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="letter" context="glosslist" occur="all">
<charlist inherit="0">
<quadding quad="center">
<presp minimum="8pt" nominal="10pt" maximum="12pt">
<postsp minimum="6pt" nominal="6pt" maximum="6pt">
<keeps next="1">
<textbrk startln="1" endln="1">
</charlist>
<att>
<specval attname="editor-only" attloc="system-var" attval="#ANY">
<charsubset>
<presp nominal="0.25in" condit="discard" priority="med">
</charsubset>
</att>
</e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="term" context="glosslist">
<charlist>
<quadding inherit="0" quad="left">
<presp minimum="6pt" nominal="8pt" maximum="10pt" condit="discard"<br"/>priority="high">
<textbrk startln="1" endln="1">
</charlist>
<att>
<specval attname="editor-only" attloc="system-var" attval="#ANY">
<charsubset>
<indent inherit="0" leftind="1pi" firstln="*">
<quadding inherit="0">
<presp nominal="0.25in" condit="keep" priority="force">
</charsubset>
</att>
<att>
<specval attname="print-only" attloc="system-var" attval="#ANY">
<specval attname="numcols" attloc="rear" attval="2">
<charsubset>
<indent inherit="0" leftind="0.0in" rightind="*0.75in" firstln="*">
<textbrk startln="1" endln="1">
<algroup refpoint="first">
</charsubset>
</att>
<att>
<specval attname="print-only" attloc="system-var" attval="#ANY">
<specval attname="numcols" attloc="rear" attval="1">
<charsubset>
<indent inherit="0" leftind="0.0in" rightind="*1.65in" firstln="*">
<textbrk startln="1" endln="1">
<algroup refpoint="first">
</charsubset>
</att>
</e-i-c>

<e-i-c gi="def" context="glosslist">
<charlist>
<presp minimum="8pt" nominal="10pt" maximum="12pt" priority="med">
<textbrk startln="1" endln="1">
</charlist>
<att>
<specval attname="editor-only" attloc="system-var" attval="#ANY">
<charsubset>
<indent leftind="2pi" firstln="*">
</charsubset>
</att>
<att>
<specval attname="print-only" attloc="system-var" attval="#ANY">
<specval attname="numcols" attloc="rear" attval="2">
<charsubset>
<indent inherit="0" leftind="0.85in" rightind="0" firstln="*">
<textbrk startln="1" endln="1">
<algroup refpoint="first">
</charsubset>
</att>
<att>
<specval attname="print-only" attloc="system-var" attval="#ANY">
<specval attname="numcols" attloc="rear" attval="1">
<charsubset>
<indent inherit="0" leftind="1.75in" rightind="0" firstln="*">
<textbrk startln="1" endln="1">
<algroup refpoint="first">
</charsubset>
</att>
</e-i-c>

Input:

Output:

Hope tis helps,
-Andy
\ / Andy Esslinger LM Aero Tech Order Data
_____-/\-_____ (817) 279-0442 Box 748, Mail Zone 4285
\_\/_/ (817) 777 3047 Ft. Worth, TX 76101-0748

ebenton · ‎Mar 09, 2009

If your definitions or "meanings" are short and you don't need the
column text wrapping that algroup formatting provides, you might want to
check into the content and formatting of the <deflist> tag in the
MILSPEC DTD and FOSI in the ...Arbortext/Editor/doctypes folder. I
think it is also in the CALS (38784) DTD. It is in the article and book
DTDs as well, but is slightly different there.

nicole.redmond · ‎Mar 10, 2009

thank you for getting back to me. I am struggling with your example because my dtd is drastically different from the example you sent. my dtd looks like this:

%html-xmlns; CDATA #FIXED %html-namespace;

%common.attrib;

%events;

name CDATA #IMPLIED

value CDATA #IMPLIED

type (button|submit|reset) "submit"

disabled (disabled) #IMPLIED

tabindex CDATA #IMPLIED

accesskey CDATA #IMPLIED

onfocus CDATA #IMPLIED

onblur CDATA #IMPLIED

>

And you sample looks a lot different. Not sure how to make them converge.

and your sample looks a lot different

AndyEsslinger · ‎Mar 10, 2009

Nichole,

Sorry. I have no clue and there is not enough information here. The
parameter entity that this posting contains doesn't look like a glossary
to me.

Maybe it makes sense to someone that does XSL, but I'm just a FOSI guy.

-Andy
\ / Andy Esslinger LM Aero Tech Order Data
_____-/\-_____ (817) 279-0442 Box 748, Mail Zone 4285
\_\/_/ (817) 777 3047 Ft. Worth, TX 76101-0748