​[Feature]: support glossary / 支持术语表 about affine

[EYHN]

Thank you for your suggestion.

I think I have a clear idea of the feature you want. Due to the amount of work in this feature, I cannot give you a specific time for us to implement it.

For at least the next month our development and design resources will be focused on AI and improving the basic user experience.

I'll leave this issue here so we can look at it again in a month. 🫡

[EYHN]

Whether the link to docs can satisfy the request of reference

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[AkiraVoid]

Whether the link to docs can satisfy the request of reference

I think it's hardly can. With glossary, the terms and explanations are not something that authors should do extra effort to make them visible to readers while writing the document, but a fully automatic process. You could imagine that some of the authors may not aware that there's a function like glossary, or they may know it exists, but don't know if there's such terms that they need. With glossary, every term detected in a document will be rendered with a pop-up that hosts its explanation, automatically. Besides all of this, we also want a centralized place to store and manage the terms, considering that there may be a same term that refers to completely different meanings in different areas. We also want to know who created this term, who added the explanation for the term and who can tell us more details about this term. With a document reference we may have some tricky workaround with these issues, but it is not designed for this. We don't want to let readers reference to a different document for more information, and the readers also don't know why they should open a different page for just a brief explanation.

[AkiraVoid]

I think I should be clearer about this idea.

Features I need

• Automatic highlighting of terms in documents, and show explanations while interacting with terms.
• One term with different explanations in different areas.
• One explanation with different terms (a term can have various forms, like JS and JavaScript).
• Search terms with global/union search.
• Add translations to a term.