Re: [docbook-apps] Index continued lines

[Richard Hamilton <hamilton@xmlpress.net>]

Jirka,

Thanks. I'll look into it. If I come up with anything generally useful, I'll report back to the list.

Dick
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On Dec 10, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Jirka Kosek wrote:

> On 10.12.2012 20:41, Richard Hamilton wrote:
>> Has anyone been successful at getting "continued" lines into indexes?
>> 
>> That is when a top level entry wraps to a new page or column, you get a line like, "Foobar continued" at the top of the next line.
>> 
>> I don't see any obvious, easy way to do this, but I'm hoping someone on the list has:-).
> 
> This could be done by formatting each index entry using fo:table and
> using fo:retrieve-table-marker to show continuation text. This is XSL-FO
> 1.1 feature, I'm not sure which processor support it directly, but many
> processor offer similar proprietary extension, for example there is
> rx:table-omit-initial-header in XEP.
> 
> 				Jirka
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