> I presume you mean in PDF output from the XSL-FO stylesheets?
>
> I don't think this can be done directly with the DocBook
> XSL stylesheets. The XSL-FO spec does not have a way
> to turn on line numbers, so there is nothing the
> stylesheet can do to turn it on.
>
> However, the following url describes a
> method for post processing the DocBook HTML output
> using MS Word, and then generating a PDF file from Word.
>
> http://www.pankaj-k.net/weblog-archive/2003_06.html
Thanks Bob,
I just tried that, and the results were actually not too bad. I had to do a little bit of tweaking (fortunately the Word styles were consistently applied), but quickly got something vaguely presentable.