 readme  id readmetxt v 184222 20080505 145436 nancyw exp glossary helps newbies understand the jargon which always crops up when specialists talk about a topic doctors discuss cbc and ekg and ccs web developers keep talking about css p2p xslt etc this is all intimidating for newbies the most recent documentation on this module will be found at http drupalorg node 196880 the glossary module uses a filter that scans posts for glossary terms including synonyms the glossary indicator is inserted after every found term or the term itself is turned into an indicator depending on the site settings by hovering over the indicator users may learn the definition of that term clicking the indicator leads the user to that term presented within the whole glossary or directly to the detailed description of the term if available the glossary uses drupal s built in taxonomy feature so you can organize your terms in a drupal vocabulary this allows you to create hierarchical structures synonyms and relations glossary terms are represented with the taxonomy terms in the glossary vocabulary descriptions are used to provide a short explanation of the terms you can attach nodes to the terms to provide detailed explanation on the keywords the glossary module will call the taxonomy image module if it s enabled to allow you to display an image for each term in the glossary if you use firefox you may want to install the longer titles addon in order to see the entire definition installation 1 copy this whole folder to the appropriate modules directory as usual drupal should automatically detect the module enable the module on the modules administration page 2 glossary terms are managed as vocabularies within the taxonomymodule to get started with glossary create a new vocabulary on the taxonomy administration page the vocabulary need not be associated with any content types though you can attach detailed description to terms by adding nodes to the terms so it might be a good idea to associate the vocabulary with the story type add a few terms to the vocabulary the term title should be the glossary entry the description should be the explanation of that term you can make use of the hierarchy synonym and related terms features these features impact the display of the glossary when viewed in an overview synonyms will be flaggged in the content the same way as the base term related terms will be linked to each other 3 next you have to set up the module and the input formats you want to use this is done on the glossary settings page at administer site configuration glossary first select the appropriate general settings and save them then select the tabs corresponding to any input formats you will allow to be used on your site probably at least filtered html you may have different settings for each input format but consider that carefully you will be able to choose between superscript icon or acronym inclusion for each term 4 if your language s alphabet consists of something other than az you will need to enter the correct alphabet in the correct order on the alphabet settings page you may blank out the digits section if you don t use terms beginning with numbers 5 if you want a search box on your glossary page enable the block on admin block page advanced usage you can create a dedicated glossary for some pages of your site to do so create a new vocabulary and put the special terms in it then create a new input format and add the glossary filter to it then configure glossary filter in that format to look at the new vocabulary finally affiliate the special pages with this input format and you will get the desired behavior you may also set up a dictionary that looks just like the glossary page but is not associated with a vocabulary authors additional improvements and fixes by nancy wichmann more improvements by moshe weitzman aagin and so it goes around more improvements by frodo looijaard many improvements by gbor hojtsy modified extensively by al maw originally written by moshe weitzman much help from killes  