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  • 1.  Index continued lines

    Posted 12-10-2012 19:42
    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:-).

    Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

    Dick Hamilton
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    XML Press
    XML for Technical Communicators
    http://xmlpress.net
    hamilton@xmlpress.net






  • 2.  Re: [docbook-apps] Index continued lines

    Posted 12-10-2012 20:21
    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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  • 3.  Re: [docbook-apps] Index continued lines

    Posted 12-10-2012 21:35
    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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    XML Press
    XML for Technical Communicators
    http://xmlpress.net
    hamilton@xmlpress.net



    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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    > ------------------------------------------------------------------
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    > DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing
    > ------------------------------------------------------------------
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