Re: [docbook-apps] generating an index with 2 columns

After an exchange off-line, Bob found why I was not able to generate an
index with 2 columns.

For the archive, here is what Bob sent me:

This is an index
inside an article, rather than in a book.  An article in DocBook is
processed in a single fo:page-sequence, and there is no option in
XSL-FO to switch to two-column layout in the middle of a page-sequence.
  
 

  
However, you could define the
article's page-sequence as two columns, and then put everything else
before the index inside an fo:block with span="all".    Then it will
revert to two columns for the index.

  
 

  
You would need to set the
column.count.body stylesheet parameter to 2, and customize the
match="article" template from fo/component.xsl to add the block
wrapper, starting before the titlepage.  Where it currently says:

  
 

  
<xsl:apply-templates/>

  
 

  
instead it should be:

  
 

  
<xsl:apply-templates
select="*[not(self::index)]"/>

  
</fo:block> <!-- close the
span block -->

  
<xsl:apply-templates
select="index"/>

I did the changes as suggested and it worked!

Many thanks to Bob for all his help. 

Diane Larin

INRO

----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane
Larin" <>
  

To: <>
  

Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:13 PM 

Subject: [docbook-apps] generating an index with 2 columns 

  

  

Hello, 

  

I am generating a pdf version of my docbook document using
docbook-xsl-1.71.1 and XEP-4.7. In the resulting output, the Index page
has one column only. I am using the default titlepage.templates.xsl.
Although the default value for column.count.index is 2, I tried setting
this parameter explicitly to 2 and then 3 with no changes. There is
always one column only. What am I doing wrong? 

  

Diane Larin 

INRO