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

[David Clunie <dclunie@dclunie.com>]

Thanks Bob

Kevin Brown described a solution for RenderX on the xep-support list
that post-processes the XEP intermediate format, so I will give that
a try.

David

On 8/27/14 12:41 PM, Bob Stayton wrote:
> 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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