RE: [docbook-apps] linenumbering for entire document?

["Rankine, Alastair J (Alastair)" <arankine@avaya.com>]

> I presume you mean in PDF output from the XSL-FO stylesheets?
> 
> I don't think this can be done directly with the DocBook
> XSL stylesheets.  The XSL-FO spec does not have a way
> to turn on line numbers, so there is nothing the 
> stylesheet can do to turn it on.
> 
> However, the following url describes a 
> method for post processing the DocBook HTML output
> using MS Word, and then generating a PDF file from Word.
> 
> http://www.pankaj-k.net/weblog-archive/2003_06.html


Thanks Bob,

I just tried that, and the results were actually not too bad. I had to do a little bit of tweaking (fortunately the Word styles were consistently applied), but quickly got something vaguely presentable.