[Linkbat-devel] Re: about display_glossary.pl

[James M. <lin...@ji...>]

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 04:37, Feng Xie wrote:
> Hi Jim !
>
> I rewrote the display_glossary.pl today. I thought the old codes in the
> display_glossary.pl are just for testing, so I removed them so I do not
> need to give another name for the codes. The subroutine I created,
> display_glossary_cells,  is actually another display_cell_contents with
> celsl13,23,31,32,33 removed, and put the lines in specific glossary page
> (they are created by parse_page.pl -g) into cell22. Of course, the cells
> 11,12,21 are exactly the same with the old way. After the codes are tested,
> I will upload it.

Let me know when you do. I made some changes to some of the code in places 
where I had hard coded formating information so that it now uses CSS. If you 
are working with display.pl and display_glossary.pl, there should be no 
problem.

> Thanks for your reminds. The SEEALSO glossary links have been modified to
> display_glossary.pl?$GLOSSARY_ID. But I am just wondering why can't we
> produce the footer ahead of time. Are any contents in the footer
> time-specific ?

Good point. No there isn't. It's one less thing that we need to do when the 
page is "live". So, I guess it's okay to add them in advance. 

> Now we have static content pages and static glossary pages(precisely
> speaking, it's through display_glossary.pl). I am wondering if you decide
> to shift one-shoot from dynamic to static pages, or step by step, I mean,
> use static glossary pages while still using display.pl to display the
> content pages. It matters because it dicides the way to parse the reference
> links in static glossary pages, and the links in the menus as well.

Good question. I am planning to make a major jump from the site as it is today 
to the new version with the KUs and static pages. When the KUs are in place, 
there will be a lot stuff being generated on the fly from the KUs, so I want 
to reduce the time taken for everything else. 

> Ah, it's hard days now. I tried 3 times today for a part time job. It seems
> that every sector of economy is going down.

I wish I could help you with that one. It's the same over here. Maybe if we 
get the tutorial to a more advanced state then someone like SuSE or Red Hat 
will want to include it or some training company will hire us. Well, we can 
dream, can't we. 

Regards,

Jim

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