Re: [O] Displaying or linking to definitions of terms?

2012-03-01 Thread Samuel Wales
 I'd like to be able to write a definition of a term, and then be able to
jump to that definition, or see that definition in some way in buffers
where the term occurs. Preferably on a file can specify a file with
term definitions or a global scale,

One option is to have an entry for the word, and link to it using an
Org-ID link.

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Re: [O] Displaying or linking to definitions of terms?

2012-02-19 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello,

jeremiah.do...@gmail.com writes:

 I've done a fair amount of reading (and-rereading) the manual, and
 searching around, but my search skills are failing me and org-mode is
 flexible enough that I figure that someone has either done this, or
 there's something that makes it unnecessary that I don't know of.

 I'd like to be able to write a definition of a term, and then be able to
 jump to that definition, or see that definition in some way in buffers
 where the term occurs. Preferably on a file can specify a file with
 term definitions or a global scale, but even per-file period would be
 awesome.

 I imagine something like a block. In pseudo-org-code:

 #+begin_definition :term elegant
 pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; pleasingly
 ingenious and simple.
 #+end_definition

 If there's a way for me to acheive the goal of find the definition for
 this term in a this is already idiomatic-org type of way, I'd love to
 hear it.

 If anyone has done something similar, I'd love to hear about it.

There are probably a lot of ways to achieve this with included tools.
For example, on a per file basis, you may use radio targets:

#+begin_src org
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness,
and is an elegant hatred for the human race.

* Definitions

  - elegant :: pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or
 manner; pleasingly ingenious and simple.
#+end_src

Note that you have to activate elegant radio target the first time
you introduce it (with C-c C-c), but present and future radio targets
will be liked to it automatically.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou



Re: [O] Displaying or linking to definitions of terms?

2012-02-19 Thread jeremiah . dodds
Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com writes:

 Hello,

 There are probably a lot of ways to achieve this with included tools.
 For example, on a per file basis, you may use radio targets:

 #+begin_src org
 Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness,
 and is an elegant hatred for the human race.

 * Definitions

   - elegant :: pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or
  manner; pleasingly ingenious and simple.
 #+end_src

 Note that you have to activate elegant radio target the first time
 you introduce it (with C-c C-c), but present and future radio targets
 will be liked to it automatically.


 Regards,

Thanks, I had somehow totally forgot about the 'item' targets,
they'll probably serve my purposes for the time being.



[O] Displaying or linking to definitions of terms?

2012-02-18 Thread jeremiah . dodds
I've done a fair amount of reading (and-rereading) the manual, and
searching around, but my search skills are failing me and org-mode is
flexible enough that I figure that someone has either done this, or
there's something that makes it unnecessary that I don't know of.

I'd like to be able to write a definition of a term, and then be able to
jump to that definition, or see that definition in some way in buffers
where the term occurs. Preferably on a file can specify a file with
term definitions or a global scale, but even per-file period would be
awesome.

I imagine something like a block. In pseudo-org-code:

#+begin_definition :term elegant
pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; pleasingly
ingenious and simple.
#+end_definition

If there's a way for me to acheive the goal of find the definition for
this term in a this is already idiomatic-org type of way, I'd love to
hear it.

If anyone has done something similar, I'd love to hear about it.

If not, I'd love to implement it, and would be immensely grateful for
any high-level pointers to entry-points for implementation, whether
functions or code files or whatnot.

Thanks for your time, and for all the collective effort put into this
amazingly useful peice of software.