Re: [docbook-apps] Indexing.

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 <davep@dpawson.co.uk> 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 <pcthoms@gmail.com> 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 <davep@dpawson.co.uk> 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
>>
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