Re: [docbook] question about indexes in epubs

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

The stylesheets have a parameter to substitute titleabbrev (if it exists) instead of title for an index entry:

ÂÂ http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/index.prefer.titleabbrev.html

That would require populating your content with titleabbrev elements. You can also customize your output by copying and editing this template from autoidx.xsl in your customization layer:

<xsl:template match="indexterm" mode="reference">

In that template you'll see "<a>" which starts the link output and then defines a "title" variable. The $title value is used in both the @title attribute on the anchor element and as the displayed text in the index entry, as you'll see further down the template:

ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ <xsl:value-of select="$title"/> <!-- text only -->
ÂÂÂÂÂ </a>

You can either modify the title variable, or just leave that title in the @title attribute and replace the final value-of with something like:

<xsl:value-of select="'&gt;&gt;'"/>

or whatever you want to put there.

Bob

On 9/9/2022 8:11 AM, Michel van den Burg wrote:

> No, they are automatically numbered, and we don't want to use numbering in our short titles, because we also combine different xml files to make new products.
>
> Michel
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> 
> Verzonden: vrijdag 9 september 2022 17:09
> Aan: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [docbook] question about indexes in epubs
>
> On 09/09/2022 15:59, Michel van den Burg wrote:
> > [...] the hyperlinks in the indexes display the titles of the sections 
> > as link text, instead of page numbers.
> >       
> Are your sections numbered? If so, is there an option to display the section number (eg 3.1.4.2) instead of the title?
>
> Peter
>
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