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gloss:1

Marks a glossary entry. In LaTeX, this is a synonym for an \item with an optional argument, within a \description environment, and the argument is added to the index.

In Windows Help, this is identical to a \section* in a report.

If labels are associated with the glossary entries, they can be referenced by \helpref or \popref jumps. A glossary entry is currently the only type of destination that popref may refer to.

This is an example of making a glossary in a report:

    \begin{helpglossary}

    \gloss{API}\label{api}

    Application Programmer's Interface - a set of calls and
    classes defining how a library (in this case, wxWidgets)
    can be used.

    \gloss{Canvas}\label{canvas}

    A canvas in XView and wxWidgets is a subwindow...

    \gloss{DDE}\label{dde}

    Dynamic Data Exchange - Microsoft's interprocess
    communication protocol. wxWidgets provides an abstraction
    of DDE under both Windows and UNIX.

    \end{helpglossary}