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RE: [docbook-apps] Two column index not formatted properly in PDF output (FOP)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] 
> 
> The index which has a 2-column layout by default is not layed 
> out propperly,
> however. I have sketched below how it approximately looks like .
> 
> There are 2 problems:
> 
> ?1.?The?second?column?starts?too?much?up,?on?the?very?upper?
border?of?the
> ????page.?This?conflicts?with?the?title?of?the?page?(which?is?
a?rather?long
> ????word?in?German:?"Stichwortverzeichnis")?and?overwrites?the?last
> ????characters?of?that?word. (The word 
> "Stichwortverzeichnis", German for
>     "Index" is verbally overwriten!)


Maybe this thread will help:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200408/msg00021.html

(ist vielleicht der kürzere Titel "Stichwörter" eine Möglichkeit?)
                                    

> 
> ?2.?Multiple?occurrences?of?one?and?the?same?term?result?in?a?
> list?of?one
> ????and?the?same?page?number?(e.g.?"8,15,15,15,15").
 

Commercial formatters such as XEP and Antenna House have XSL-FO extensions
that deal with this. The problem is not that easy to fix with FOP,
unfortunately. However, you might be interested in Ken Holman's back of the
book index methodology. It takes some time to understand and set up, but it
could be worth a try: 

http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/bbi/index.htm
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/make.index.markup.
html


/MJ



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