You're not the first to wonder about that :-)
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1854194&group_
id=21935&atid=373750
That functionality exists for the automatically generated
back-of-the-book index which sorts the index terms into indexdivs. The
internationalization aspect is a little tricky. Some languages have
accented characters which aren't put into their own divs (i.e. if an
accented a starts a word, you want it in the div with all the other
words beginning with a) and Asian languages present their own
challenges. Still, it could (and probably someday will) be implemented.
David
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From: Laurie Burley [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:05 AM
To: Laurie Burley; [email protected]
Subject: [docbook-apps] RE: glossary.sort
HI,
After a lot of testing.. I found that if I remove the glossdivs,
I can get the terms to be in the correct order. My problem now is that
the letter separators that I was using the glossdivs for .. are no
longer are there, which isn't really how I want it to look.
Has anyone managed to modify their customization layer to get
this to work? Any info would be helpful.
Regards,
Laurie.
From: Laurie Burley
Sent: 30 March 2010 12:31
To: [email protected]
Subject: [docbook-apps] glossary.sort
Hi,
I'm trying to get the glossary.sort parameter to work in my PDF
output as we are generating a document in multiple languages, so the
order of the glossary terms changes, depending on the language.
I have added <xsl:param name="glossary.sort"
select="0"></xsl:param>
to the param.xsl in our customisation layer, but have made no
other changes to the glossary in our customisation layer.
The result of the sort does not behave like I expected, or as it
is documented at http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/GlossarySort.html,
unless I've misunderstood it.
My glossary is set up with a glossdiv for each letter in
English. When I generate another language, the translations for the
terms in the first glossdiv are in alphabetical order, but only within
that glossdiv, and each subsequent glossdiv has sorted content but only
within that block.
From the information on the above html page, I got the
impression that the parent element container, in my case, the glossary,
would be where the terms were sorted. Have I misunderstood this?
You cannot add a glossterm directly to the glossary, so another
child block element is needed. In order to alphabetise this the way I
want, the only solution I can see is removing the individual glossdivs
but one, and just add all glossterms to a single one, eliminating the
possibility of having individual letters. On the website it says that
'There is currently no provision for generating letter titles to divide
letter groups...etc.'
Has anyone done this to include the letters? Or could anyone
provide me with a little more guidance on how to get this to work for
me?
Any information would be helpful.
Kind Regards,
Laurie.
Laurie Burley
Sr. Tech Comm Spc.
Kofax U.K., Ltd.
201 Cambridge Science Park
Milton Road, Cambridge
CB4 0GZ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 226021
[email protected]
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