Hi, some technical/formatting things we ran into while using indexes:
1. Indexterms within listitems add a line break in the generated HTML (if they come first). Review the entire documentation, and either reposition them to come after a para (workaround), or use zones: <listitem> <indexterm zone="para1"> <primary>term1</primary> <secondary>term2</secondary> </indexterm> <para xml:id="para1">loremipsum</para> </listitem> (Zones documented at: http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/indexterm.html) 2. When adding indexterms directly after a <section> or similar tag, we got validation errors, so now we place them after the title tag. However, this causes the browsers scroll through the title, which is a bit confusing, because the title of the section/procedure/whatever is not always visible HTH, Robert On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Dave Pawson <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, the more I've used it the more I'm impressed with the coding, > for which many thanks to the docbook team. > > regards > > On 21 June 2016 at 23:06, Pc Thoms <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Dave and Docbook-apps Company: > > > > In working with a legacy text, 1875, and it's index I entered five > secondary > > entries, expecting an error, using the following: > > > > <index><title>Index</title> > > <indexentry><primaryie>Admission to Seats in Synod</primaryie> > > <secondaryie>Ven. Archdeacon McMurray</secondaryie> > > <secondaryie>Rev. Dr. Sullivan</secondaryie> > > <secondaryie>Rev. Dr. Stocking</secondaryie> > > <secondaryie>Wm. J. Harris</secondaryie> > > <secondaryie>W. B. Curran</secondaryie></indexentry> > > </index> > > > > And to my surprise and delight this validated and produced the desired > > entry. > > All I have to say is that the xslt stylesheets for DocBook are awesome! > > If this should not work - don't change anything. > > > > Grateful - Paul > > > > > > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:40 AM, davep <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I'm about to start indexing a db5 book. > >> Reading up on the subject(Nancy C. Mulvany) and wondered if anyone has > >> been there and done that, got the tee-shirt and found the pitfalls in > >> docbook? Any advice from those with lots of experience of using > >> db indexes please? > >> > >> > >> > >> regards > >> > >> -- > >> Dave Pawson > >> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. > >> http://www.dpawson.co.uk > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
