Re: [docbook-apps] Creating a documentation set with separate book outputs

[Robert Fekete <frobert@balabit.com>]

Hi,
I have seen similar solutions in printed multi-volume books (of course, none of
them are at hand to check).

The point would be that if a user opens one volume and hits CTRL+F to search for
something, he gets an idea which volume he should open, even if it is not in the
current volume.

I haven't thought much about the display of the Toc and the index yet. I guess
the global index could include the title of the volume in addition to the page
number, or simply a volume id.

Peter Desjardins wrote:

> That's an interesting plan.  What would the global TOC and index look
> like in each book?  Would the references to sections in other books
> include the book title and URL? 



In the text, I already use olinks, if the global Toc could create olinks as
well, that would be awesome. But if I could add a global toc without links to
every volume (in addition to the normal toc of the volume) I would be happy :)

Robert

> And would the fewer references to
> sections in the opened book be traditional page number?
>
> Your question made me think of the Eclipse infocenter.  One of the
> things I like the most about the infocenter is that it provides a
> unified TOC and index for all your doc plugins/books.
>
> Peter
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Robert Fekete <frobert@balabit.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a large book that I would like to split up into several smaller,
>> interlinked books. The plan is to create separate book elements for the
>> separate books, but include a global TOC and index in each. I thought that
>> docbook sets were the way to do this, but it seems that sets are used to
>> merge separate books into a single one. I've tried googling, but to no
>> avail.
>>
>> Is there a way to do it?
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>>
>> Robert
>>
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