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Subject: Glossary issues
The following fairly lengthy element is a reasonably good example of the kinds of issues I confront when working with glossaries. <glossentry> <glossterm>Logic</glossterm> <glossdef> <para> <wordasword>Log"ic</wordasword>, n. [ OE. <foreignphrase>logike</foreignphrase>, F. <foreignphrase>logique</foreignphrase>, L. <foreignphrase>logica</foreignphrase>,<foreignphrase>logice</foreignphrase>, Gr. <foreignphrase>logikh`</foreignphrase> (sc. te`chnh), fr. <foreignphrase>logiko`s</foreignphrase> belonging to speaking or reason, fr. <foreignphrase>lo`gos</foreignphrase> speech, reason, <foreignphrase>le`gein</foreignphrase> to say, speak. See Legend.] </para> </glossdef> <glossdef> <para> The aspect of nature determining how the mind proceeds from truth to truth. </para> </glossdef> <glossdef> <para>The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; the science of correct reasoning. <citation>[1913 Webster]</citation> </para> <para> <blockquote> <attribution>Sir W. Hamilton</attribution> <para>Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought; that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, considered in itself, is subject.</para></blockquote> <citation>[1913 Webster]</citation> </para> <formalpara> <title>Note: </title> <para> <blockquote> <attribution>Abp. Thomson.</attribution> <para>Logic is distinguished as pure and applied. "Pure logic is a science of the form, or of the formal laws, of thinking, and not of the matter. Applied logic teaches the application of the forms of thinking to those objects about which men do think."</para></blockquote> <citation>[1913 Webster]</citation> </para> </formalpara> </glossdef> <glossdef> <para>A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic.<citation>[1913 Webster]</citation></para> </glossdef> <glossdef> <para>correct reasoning; as, I can't see any logic in his argument; also, sound judgment; as, the logic of surrender was uncontestable.<citation>[PJC]</citation></para> </glossdef> <glossdef> <para>The path of reasoning used in any specific argument; as, his logic was irrefutable.<citation>[PJC]</citation></para> </glossdef> <glossdef> <para>(Electronics, Computers) A function of an electrical circuit (called a gate) that mimics certain elementary binary logical operations on electrical signals, such as AND, OR, or NOT; as, a logic circuit; the arithmetic and logic unit.<citation>[PJC]</citation></para> </glossdef> </glossentry> It may be the case that I want more functionality from DocBook than I should reasonably expect. Nonetheless, some of the features I would like, do seem reasonable in the context of technical documentation. The entry above is a transcription of the definition found here: http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=logic Possibly useful elements for a full-blown dictionary might be <etymology/> <etymologyentry/> <language/> <pronunciation/> <glossedterm/><!--wrap this around text in the body of a document pointing to the glossary entry --> <synonym/> <partofspeech/><!-- verb|noun|pronoun|... --> Some of the functionality suggested above might be achieved using existing DocBook elements. I would be happy to learn how this can be done. I understand there is a problem with trying to expand DocBook to cover every possible feature which might appear in a book. ... To be continued ... Steven
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