I saw a project at the "Hacking Journalism" hackathon @ MIT recently that
would get the job done:
http://hackingjournalism.challengepost.com/submissions/24271-inline

They were thinking more along the lines of a crowdsource solution for
science news but I'm sure it could adapted to fit your needs!

—Chris


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Do you know of a Web-based tool or piece of desktop software that would
> let a professor post a text in a frame, then highlight words or phrases and
> link them to a glossary? A quick-and-dirty web page (possibly attached) and
> link below illustrates the idea:
>
>   http://dh.crc.nd.edu/tmp/glossary.html
>
> —
> Eric Morgan
>