Re: [docbook-apps] customizing index generation

[Richard Hamilton <hamilton@xmlpress.net>]

Stefan,

The brute force way (though it wouldn't take much of an xsl script to do it) would be to add a sortas attribute to each term. It might also be worth checking out the code where sortas is handled and see if that's a convenient place to sneak in a customization. I've never looked at that code, so that may be a totally impractical suggestion:-).

Dick
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On Dec 9, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm writing an API reference manual for a library, whose symbols all
> start with a common prefix. Having added one indexterm per symbol, the
> generated index now contains a list with a single letter - the first
> letter of the shared prefix.
> 
> So, having "foo_something" and "foo_other" would now generate a single
> letter "F" under which both symbols are listed.
> 
> Is there a way to strip off the common prefix for purposes of index
> generation only, that is without actually removing the prefix from the
> indexed symbols themselves ?
> 
> So, The two symbols "foo_something" and "foo_other" above would end up
> in two sections, the first under "S", the second under "O".
> 
> Is that possible ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 		Stefan
> 
> 
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