[Xerte-dev] Re: Glossary

Ron Mitchell ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
Fri Oct 5 09:32:35 BST 2012


Hi Tom

is this XOT or xerte?

I can't get the Glossary to work in XOT at all - am I missing something
stupid?...

 

As a test I added the following:



Then a plain text page with



 

and a text and graphics page with the same words



 

But neither page shows any clickable links
http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=143

 

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 05 October 2012 08:34
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Glossary

 

Julain,

I suppose this is one for you:

I have a teacher that wants to create a kind of dictionary, so he's created
a big glossary, and then for each letter a separate text page containing a
list of the terms.

However, the terms are not all transformed into a link. 
1. The regular expression doesn't like the sentence ending on a 'newline',
I've added '\r' to the set of characters that may 'end' a term in the RegExp
of line 6662 (or the teacher has to add a space at the end of the term.

That still is not enough, it will only transform the first term to a link. I
had to remove the \\b <file:///\\b>  from the regexp. I tried to find a
manual page to figure out what \\b <file:///\\b>  means in RegExp, but I
can't find it. Do you have any idea what the \\b <file:///\\b>  is doing
there?

For quick reference I needed to change this:

if (Glossary.enabled && highlight != false){
                for (var i = 0; i<Glossary.terms.length; i++) {
                    //new code with regexp
                    var re = new RegExp('\\b(' + Glossary.terms[i] +
')([.,!? -])', 'gi');
                    myText = myText.replace(re, '<font color =
"'+STYLES.glossaryColour+'"><a class="glossary" href =
"asfunction:_root.engine.rootIcon.showGlosTerm,'+i+'">$1</a></font>$2');
                }
            }

into this:

if (Glossary.enabled && highlight != false){
                for (var i = 0; i<Glossary.terms.length; i++) {
                    //new code with regexp
                    var re = new RegExp('(' + Glossary.terms[i] + ')([.,!?
-\n\r])', 'gi');
                    myText = myText.replace(re, '<font color =
"'+STYLES.glossaryColour+'"><a class="glossary" href =
"asfunction:_root.engine.rootIcon.showGlosTerm,'+i+'">$1</a></font>$2');
                }
            }



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