Glossary

Hextra supports building a site-wide terminology glossary.

Source Data File

Term definitions are centrally stored in a termbase.yaml data file for each supported language.

Each YAML data file contains a list of glossary entries. Every entry includes:

• term: The full name of the concept or phrase.
• definition: A brief explanation or description of the term.
• abbr (optional): A commonly used abbreviation or acronym for the term.

- term: seo
  abbr: SEO
  definition: "Search engine optimization – improving the visibility of a web page in search engines"
- term: static site generator
  definition: "Software engines processing text input to generate static web pages"

Glossary Page

To render the glossary index page (listing all defined terms along with their descriptions and abbreviations), a language-specific glossary content file must be defined for each supported language. Use the language code suffix in the filename, for example content/glossary/_index.en.md.

---
title: Glossary
layout: glossary
---

An example glossary page is available at Glossary.