Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Indexes

2001-12-11 Thread Jirka Kosek
Alexander Schatten wrote: Use XML version of DocBook and XSL stylesheets. They are able to create index in a single pass without need for running separate support programs (like collateindex.pl). sorry for adding a question: I use the XSL stylesheets for HMTL production (PDF does not

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Indexes

2001-12-11 Thread Alexander Schatten
Jirka Kosek wrote: Alexander Schatten wrote: Use XML version of DocBook and XSL stylesheets. They are able to create index in a single pass without need for running separate support programs (like collateindex.pl). sorry for adding a question: I use the XSL stylesheets for HMTL production

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Indexes

2001-12-11 Thread Jirka Kosek
Alexander Schatten wrote: (3a) I try to create HTML using autoidx.xsl (that was once recommenden): this does not work at all: it generates plain text, no html any more?? No, you should use docbook.xsl or chunk.xsl. (3b) I try docbook.xsl: this works: generates HTML, but no index (3b) I

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Indexes

2001-12-11 Thread Gerrit Kuilder
Hello, I have/had this problem too, using an older version of (I believe) index.xsl (from 1.29) solved it for me, haven't tested it for a while though. Regards, Gerrit Alexander Schatten wrote: Jirka Kosek wrote: Alexander Schatten wrote: Use XML version of DocBook and XSL

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Indexes

2001-12-11 Thread Alexander Schatten
Do you have something like following in place where you want index to appear? index titleMy superb index/title /index THANK YOU VERY MUCH! that was the (obvious) solution: nevertheless: unfortunately, this index thing is described _very_ confusing in the Doc Book - Definitive Guide

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Indexes

2001-12-11 Thread Rory Hunter
btw. the next problems are already arising, as I also need to figure out references to tables, to images, glossary, ... You do this with xrefs. An example is easiest; Name the element you want to reference first, i.e. figure id=my_figure ... /figure then anywhere you want to refer to

DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Indexes

2001-11-21 Thread Brian Pribis
It seems to me that a number of people have asked questions about this but I can't seem to find my problem in here anywhere. I have a SGML file and I do the following after marking up some indexes: jade -t sgml -d location_of_my_docbook.dsl -V html-index document.sgml Then collateindex.pl -o

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Indexes

2001-11-21 Thread Jirka Kosek
Brian Pribis wrote: Also, why isn't it easier to generate indexes? I can only do this on SGML files and not on XML using jade. You can generate index from XML in the same way as from SGML. Any suggestion as to how to do this easier? Thanks. Use XML version of DocBook and XSL