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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}