Matthew Hobbs wrote:
>
> I produce PDF from DocBook XML using openjade and pdftex. I want to make an
> index and have finally managed to do this using collateindex.pl. However I
> am disappointed to find that my index turns out to have considerable
> redundancy . Indeed the collateindex.pl output warns that:
>
> Duplicates may be removed in the HTML backend, but in the print
> backends, it is impossible to suppress duplicate pages or coalesce
> sequences of pages into a range.
>
> Is there no way around this?
If you must stick with DSSSL and can use RTF and MS Word + Distiller to
get PDF there is a solution. I posted it 1-2 years ago to this list. It
uses small modifications to stylesheet and some RTF postprocessing to
use RTF/Word bookmarks which are replaced by page ranges in index.
Jirka
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