Re: [docbook] Line numbering ordinary text, not just 'verbatim environments'

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

I know that the Antenna House XSL Formatter (not the Lite version) can 
number lines.  It has several extension properties like axf:line-number 
that control application and formatting of the numbers.

I'm not sure it will work as you want for tables, as it numbers lines in 
all cells if you turn it on for the whole table.   Since that isn't what 
you want you would have to turn it on only for cells in the first column 
and fiddle with the formatting.

Another approach is to work with the intermediate format that FOP, XEP, 
and Antenna House can all produce.  This is an XML representation of the 
typeset area tree, where text lines are marked up as such.  It might be 
possible to intervene to add line numbers, but it might be tricky to 
avoid messing up the already typeset material.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 8/26/2014 4:43 PM, Alexey Neyman wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> The problem with numbering the lines in non-verbatim environment is that the
> actual layout is not performed by docbook-xsl stylesheets. Rather, it is
> performed by the next step, the FO processor (such as Apache FOP).
>
> So, this might not be possible without some support from the FO processor.
>
> Regards,
> Alexey.
>
> On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 06:55:30 am David Clunie wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I need to include line numbers for all the text in a document (so
> > that reviewers can comment on specific parts of the document with
> > precise references, without having to manually count line offsets
> > from the nearest section label, etc). This is for PDF rendering.
> >
> > I found the "line numbering extensions" but I understand that it
> > only applies to 'verbatim environments', which the documentation
> > describes as 'address, literallayout, programlisting, screen,
> > synopsis'.
> >
> > Before I start customizing the stylesheets, is there a mechanism
> > for this already?
> >
> > David
> >
> > PS. Or to put it another way, I am looking for something like Microsoft
> > Word's line numbering feature, but better, in that ideally table lines
> > would also be numbered (which they are not in Word).
> >
> > PPS. Either restarting numbering with a page, or continuous from the
> > start would be fine for my use case.
> >
> >
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