Look up definitions of special terms

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Legal templates define many terms and then re-use them in the same exact spelling and casing throughout the agreement. See PRIMITIVES.md.

Parse the defined terms out of the document and allow the user to view their definitions easily.

Ideas:

• Hover/tooltip with the definition, or when clicking on the term anywhere in the document
• Side by side list of terms used in each paragraph (toggle on/off)
• Inline "footnotes" for each paragraph (toggle on/off)
• Fixed list of terms on the side

[sebdeckers]

The HTML5 spec explains how to extract the Defined Term and Definition for a <dfn/> element. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#defining-term

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Ref: 76200332db5bfa12bb671b7b65170cb920a23862

• [x] Finding of defined terms in the DOM
• [x] Highlighting defined terms as anchors
• [x] Navigate to definition on click of an anchor

Known Limitation

The highlighting algorithm does not repeat matched terms in the same paragraph. This is similar to how Wikipedia does not repeat linked topics in the same article. A bug in the implementation breaks this slightly. Highlighted terms in the same paragraph are repeated if the terms are separated by a longer term. This is apparent in short, frequently used terms. The solution is to be discussed: Either highlight all matches in the entire paragraph (easy change), or rewrite the matching algorithm to skip repeated terms.