On 29 June 2015 at 01:17, Jacques Nilo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Lex
>
> On Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 1:15:05 PM UTC+2, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>
>> Yes the docbook:
>>
>> <link linkend="xxSection1">Section 1</link>
>> <xref linkend="xxSection1"/></simpara>
>>
>> looks like a bug, I wonder why nobody has ever noticed before.
>
>
> Sometimes you need the innocent view of a newbie :-)
>
>>
>> Possibly knowing they are going to have the xref generated by PDF most
>> PDF users had no caption or everyone uses << >>.
>>
>> Generated pull request #80 with a proposed fix, any chance of you trying
>> it?
>
>
> OK I found your patch in Github and modified my docbook45.conf file
> accordingly. No more duplicate xref in my pdf !
>
> Many thanks for fixing that so quickly !!!
>
> A last little remaining problem though : in the pdf generated file
> (master.pdf attached) the link leads to the first line of the first
> paragraph of the targeted section and not - as it does with the -a html5 web
> site and as it should -  to the targeted section label.
>
> I tried to open the pdf file with both Adobe Reader XL under windows and
> Linux Evince to see if it could be related to the reader but got the same
> result with both. Therefore I suspect this problem is related to the way the
> pdf is generated.

If the anchor is on the right place in the docbook then yes its the
PDF generation.


>
> A last question (trying to minimise the significant conversion work ahead of
> me...) : is it possible to use a section label as a tag for xref ?
> i.e. if I have :
>
> === Section 1

See http://asciidoc.org/userguide.html#_sections 8.4.2

Cheers
Lex

>
> can I some how use the "Section 1" as a reference in xref ?
>
> Cheers
> Jacques
>
>
>
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