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, wxWindows) can be used.

\gloss{Canvas}\label{canvas}

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

\gloss{DDE}\label{dde}

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

\end{helpglossary}