Name
glossterm — A glossary term
Synopsis
glossterm ::= (text | Bibliography inlines | Error inlines | Graphic inlines | GUI inlines | Indexing inlines | Keyboard inlines | Linking inlines | Markup inlines | Math inlines | Object-oriented programming inlines | Operating system inlines | Product inlines | Programming inlines | Publishing inlines | Technical inlines | Ubiquitous inlines)*
Additional constraints
@linkend
onglossterm
must point to aglossentry
.
Description
A glossterm
identifies a term that appears in a
glossary
or glosslist
. This
element occurs in two very different places: it is both an inline, and a
structure element of a glossentry
. As an inline, it
identifies a term defined in a glossary, and may point to it. Within a
glossentry
, it identifies the term defined by that
particular entry.
Processing expectations
As an inline, glossterm
s frequently get
special typographic treatment, such as italics. In an online
environment, they may also form a link (explicitly or implicitly) to
the corresponding definition in a glossary.
The glossterm
s must not be nested within
other glossterm
s. The processing of nested
glossterm
s is undefined.
As part of a glossentry
,
glossterm
s are usually set as a block and separated
from the definition.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- baseform
Specifies the base form of the term, the one that appears in the glossary. This allows adjectival, ...
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