glossentry

glossentry — An entry in a Glossary or GlossList.

Synopsis

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

  • sortas

Description

A glossentry is a wrapper around a glossary term and its definition.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block. Glossary entries are usually formatted to highlight the terms and definitions, frequently in a style similar to varlistentrys.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

sortas

Specifies the string by which the element's content is to be sorted; if unspecified, the content is used

Parents

These elements contain glossentry: glossary, glossdiv, glosslist.

Children

The following elements occur in glossentry: abbrev, acronym, glossdef, glosssee, glossterm, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange).

Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)