RE: docbook-apps indexdiv/title letters overprinting column one in a two column index

["David Cramer" <dcramer@motive.com>]

Yep, I noticed the same thing. I've been meaning to log a bug/rfe about it since it shows up in the default output of the fo stylesheets. Here's what I did in my customization layer (diff is based on fo/autoidx.xsl in 1.60.1 of the docbook xsls). 

In pagesetup.xsl, in about 5 places (the simple-page-master for index-first, index-odd..., on fo:region-body), add a column-gap attribute. column-gap="48pt" worked for me, but what works for you may depend on what you've set title.margin.left to.

Let me know if this little hack doesn't make sense.

David

Index: autoidx.xsl
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<      $Id: autoidx.xsl,v 1.1 2003/02/05 04:01:28 dcramer Exp $
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>      $Id: autoidx.xsl,v 1.2 2003/02/17 04:30:26 dcramer Exp $
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<   <fo:block>
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>   <fo:block  margin-left="{$title.margin.left}">
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<     <fo:block start-indent="1pc">
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>     <fo:block start-indent="-2pc">
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<     <fo:block start-indent="2pc">
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>     <fo:block start-indent="-1pc">

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul A. Hoadley [mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:16 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: docbook-apps indexdiv/title letters overprinting column one in
a two column index


Hello,

I'm using XSL stylesheets 1.60.1, with v1.19 of fo/index.xsl, then XEP
to generate PS and PDF.

The bold letters which are the indexdiv/titles are being printed too
far left in the second column of a two-column index, and, in fact,
they overwrite text in the first column.  I gather from
fo/pagesetup.xsl that a multi-column index is truly a multi-column
page-master, and not a table on a single-column page.  I am not
familiar with setting up a multi-column page in XSL-FO -- are the
margins of each column specified independently?  If so, I wonder
whether the left margin in the second column is too far left?  If not,
I am open to other suggestions as to the cause.  Has anyone else seen
this in a multicolumn index?

(I get the same behaviour with an stylesheet-generated index and an
index included as an entity.)


-- 
Paul.

mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net
mailto:phoadley@maths.adelaide.edu.au