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 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" add-on in order to see the entire definition. Installation ------------ 1. Copy this whole folder to rhe 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 taxonomy.module. To get started with glossary, create a new vocabulary on the taxonomy administration page. The vocabulary need not be associated with any modules, 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" module. 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. 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 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 Gabor Hojtsy Modified extensively by Al Maw . Originally written by Moshe Weitzman . Much help from killes.