I'm using:
-- FOP 0.95
-- docbook-xsl-1.74.0 stylesheets
Problem: indexterm elements placed right after the section's title prevent the
section title from staying with the following paragraph (which should happen by
default because of the keep-with-next property).
I commonly structure my sections so that any indexterm elements come right
after the title, like so:
<section id="Foo">
<title id="Foo.title">Using Foo</title>
<indexterm>
<primary>Foo</primary>
</indexterm>
<para>Here's a paragraph about Foo.</para>
...
This creates FO that looks generally like this (minus a few attributes):
<fo:block keep-with-next.within-column="always">Using Foo</fo:block>
<fo:block id="d0e9818"><!--Foo--></fo:block>
<fo:block>Here's a paragraph about Foo.</fo:block>
So, there's a comment inside the block that gets written for the indexterm.
This causes a problem for the "keep-with-next" property. Ideally, the block for
the section title "Using Foo" would be kept with the block for the paragraph
"Here's a paragraph about Foo." But, because the next block is actually the
empty block for the indexterm, the keep-with-next doesn't work, and the section
title "Using Foo" ends up at the bottom of a page, disconnected from the
paragraph that follows.
So my question is this: What's the best way to fix this? Do I have to just move
all my indexterms somewhere else in the section (yuck! that's a lot of XML to
touch). Or can I override the template for indexterms? Does that block for the
indexterm actually need to be written to the FO at all (since it's just got
comments in it)? Is it used in the actual creation of the index?
Thanks for any thoughts you have on this!
cheri
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Cheri Dennison / Technical Writer
AWS Platform Group
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