Hi Dick,
The stylesheets should not be inserting any white space for indexterms. However, the
XSLT processor might if the stylesheet customization layer has <xsl:output
indent="yes"/>. For FO output, that indent property should always be set to "no" to
avoid adding such spaces.
If you have indent="no" and are still getting white spaces, I'd like to investigate
further.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hamilton" <[email protected]>
To: "Bob Stayton" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Xmplar" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Embedding indexterms for fo and html
I use a simple set of macros in nxml mode that make things very easy.
Once nice thing, which may have been discussed before, would be if the stylesheets
could somehow avoid inserting extra spaces in the text in the places where index terms
are included. I've ended up only putting index terms at the beginning or end of
paragraphs or immediately after titles to avoid that problem. It would be nice to be
able to put them exactly where the term is in the text, so that if there's a break in
the middle of a paragraph, the index entry still points to the right place.
Dick Hamilton
On Mar 8, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Bob Stayton wrote:
My experience is that a good index is made by an iterative process. The first pass
of adding entries will have small inconsistencies in vocabulary, groupings, see, and
see also. The index person has to be able to process the entries, review the index,
and make adjustments in the indexterms.
For adding indexterms, a macro or two in your XML editor can speed things up quite a
bit.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
----- Original Message ----- From: Xmplar
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 9:13 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Embedding indexterms for fo and html
I'm just starting to experiment with the automatic index generation, following the
procedure in The Complete Guide, and wondered if anyone would like to comment on how
they approached the procedure to generate indexes for PDF and HTML output. Are there
any shortcuts to specifying the indexterms? Did you do any post-generation editing
for the HTML index? It'd be great to get some insight.
Thanks,
--
Dave Gardiner
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