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Remove unnecessary glossary entries
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Some glossary entries seem unnecessary or contain explanations which should perhaps be elsewhere; e.g. tool descriptions.

Tool descriptions I've found in the glossary so far:

Subdivision Surface

Knife

Proportional Editing

Extrude


Others seem perhaps overly specific (I could not find any reference to any of these with a quick search):

Gouraud Shading

Phong

Doppler Effect


Are there any other glossary entries which perhaps should be in the glossary?
Do we have a solid definition of what should be a glossary term and what shouldn't?

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Kitt Zwovic (gandalf3) raised the priority of this task from to 90.
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Control Cage also seems rather localized

Bastien Montagne (mont29) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to Normal.Aug 25 2015, 12:04 PM
Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Resolved.EditedAug 26 2015, 7:31 AM

Committed rBM564

Kept Subdivision Surface but updated the description since it was too specific.

Also Kept: Gouraud & Phong, Shading are also common tems WRT computer graphics, however only Phong shows up in Blender's UI.

Should glossary entries be kept if they are not referenced anywhere in the manual?

No harm in it I think.

Might be nice to have a script that goes through the glossary and adds :term: directives to the first match of each term on every page in the manual. Though maybe that's not necessary and just makes things messy.