On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> wrote:
>> However, when I use a navtitle attribute on my indexlist, I no
>> longer get an index. I do not get an entry in the table of contents
>> either, but I do get an entry in the document map.
> It works like this just by luck.
Ok. Luck is a tricky thing, but since it doesn't actually contain the
contents of the index, we're not hoping that our luck keeps holding.
:-)
> It's currently not possible to have TOC entries corresponding to the
> index, LOT, LOF and other frontmatter or backmatter material.
Uhm, well, not in the TOC, but certainly in the document map.
Our front matter section:
<frontmatter>
<preface href="preface.xml"/>
<booklists>
<toc/>
<tablelist/>
<figurelist/>
</booklists>
</frontmatter>
The title element of preface.xml: <title>Foreward</title>
and "Foreword" does appear in the document map (the contents of the
preface.xml file appear prior to the TOC in our output file, so not
having an entry in the TOC is fine in this case
> This limitation is not documented because we were not aware that DITA
> allowed to do this.
I did not know either until I received feedback that the index was
missing from the TOC and went to see what DITA said about it.
> We'll reread the DITA spec and check what you are saying (navtitle means
> add it to the TOC).
Thank you, I'm looking forward to your results (I hope they confirm my
own research).
> We'll try to implement this feature in the next release of ditac. But if
> this is too much work, then we'll document this as a limitation.
Understood.
> PS: You are welcome to sponsor this feature if you want to make sure to
> have it.
Ok, Please contact me off-list about that possibility...
Thank you,
--Doug
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