Re: [docbook-apps] Antenna House bug and Indexes

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

What version of the DocBook XSL stylesheets are you using?  The
processing I was describing using the inline.or.block template
was added in version 1.69.1.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Savikas" <andrews@oreilly.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:53 AM
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Antenna House bug and Indexes


> Here's a sample of what results in the weird line breaking:
>
> <sect1 role="" id="xpathpointer-CHP-1-SECT-1" label="1.1">
> <title>Why XPath and XPointer?</title>
> <para>Detailed answers to the following
> <indexterm
id="IXT-1-230748"><primary>XPath</primary><secondary>reasons to
> use</secondary></indexterm>
> <indexterm
id="IXT-1-230749"><primary>XPointer</primary><secondary>reasons
> to
> use</secondary></indexterm>questions are implicit throughout
this
> book and explicit in a couple of spots:
> </para>
> </sect1>
>
> Regardless of actual whitespace in the XML, the line *always*
breaks just
> before the first <indexterm> (after the word "following").
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Savikas
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:38 PM
> > To: Andrew Savikas; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Antenna House bug and Indexes
> >
> > Yes, there is a problem with hard coding $wrapper.name to
> > fo:inline.  An indexterm can appear between two para
elements.
> > Such an indexterm would generate an fo:inline outside of a
> > fo:block, which would cause the FO processor to fail.  The
> > template named inline.or.block should return the correct
> > choice of wrapper for each container element.  But it sounds
> > like it is missing one.  Can you provide an example of your
> > XML markup?
> >
> > Bob Stayton
> > Sagehill Enterprises
> > DocBook Consulting
> > bobs@sagehill.net
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Savikas" <andrews@oreilly.com>
> > To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:27 AM
> > Subject: [docbook-apps] Antenna House bug and Indexes
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > When using AntennaHouse with axf extensions enabled, I was
> > getting strange
> > > behavior on the first line of paragraphs that followed a
> > <title> and
> > > contained an <indexterm> near their beginnings.
> > >
> > > For example, instead of:
> > >
> > > Foo The Bar
> > > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
> > > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
> > >
> > > I was getting:
> > >
> > > Foo The Bar
> > > The quick brown fox
> > > jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox
> > > jumps over the lazy dog. The quck brown fox
> > >
> > > So the first line of the paragraph after a <title>, if it
> > contains an
> > > <indexterm>, breaks well before it should.
> > >
> > > Disabling axf extensions alleviated the problem, but of
course
> > then I lost
> > > my PDF bookmarks.
> > >
> > > I looked at fo/index.xsl, and noticed the variable
> > "wrapper.name" in the
> > > "indexterm" template, along with the comment about it being
a
> > workaround for
> > > a bug in AntennaHouse. And indeed, when I disable the axf
> > extensions, then
> > > my index has no page numbers (well, all 0), so I assume
that's
> > the bug
> > > referred to.
> > >
> > > So on the one hand, if I enable the extensions, I get a
correct
> > index, but
> > > weird line breaks after titles, and if I disable the
> > extensions, then I get
> > > OK line breaks, but a bum index.
> > >
> > > As an experiment, I changed the value of $wrapper.name to
> > "fo:inline", and
> > > that appears to solve both issues -- there's no weird line
> > breaks, and I get
> > > correct index page numbers. Is there anything problematic
with
> > this approach
> > > that I'm not aware of? (I'm fairly new to FO.) If it's a
> > reasonable
> > > approach, then I hope it helps others who might be having
the
> > same problem.
> > > If not, please let me know so I can fix my stylesheets
> > accordingly.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andrew Savikas
> > > O'Reilly Media, Inc.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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