Hi,
I had the same problem as Rasmus and up to now I was using another
suggestion Bob gave me on November 1, 2006 (Subject: generating an
index with 2 columns) which also consisted of a modification of the
fo/component.xsl plus the setting of the column.count.body stylesheet
parameter to 2. This was doing the job but with some inconvenience:
the header contained the title of the last section instead of
Index
more important, twice I updated the stylesheets and I forgot to
re-apply the modification to fo/component.xsl and I ended with a
complete document in 2 columns :-(
Therefore, I was very interested with the new proposed solution. I
tried it and found the following problems:
The numbering of the Index pages restarts at 1 (shown also as
page 1 in the Table of Contents)
The header and footer of the Index pages are empty
Whenever it is possible I use book but, for some of my documents,
switching to a book is not really a solution because they contain
several sections that cannot be organized into chapters and section is
not a child of book.
Ideally, it would be possible to use a parameter to specify the number
of columns in the Index pages.
Diane
Bob Stayton wrote:
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-moz-fixed">Hi,
Multiple columns are specified in the page-master, so your index
content must be removed from the main article page-sequence that uses
the "body" page-master and put into a new page-sequence using the
"index" page-master. You would have to customize the template with
match="article" from fo/component.xsl.
Near the end of the template, change:
...
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
to:
...
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(self::index)]"/>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
<xsl:call-template name="page.sequence">
<xsl:with-param
name="master-reference">index</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="content">
<xsl:apply-templates select="index"/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rasmus Kaj" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:53 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Columns in index of article, with
docbook-xsl-ns
Hi!
I'm trying, without success, to get a multi-column index in a DocBook
article.
After a lot of searching I found that the index page-master isn't used
for an article. If I switch to a book it works, but then I get loads
of
extra page breaks and empty pages that I don't want (and what I write
feels more like an article than a book).
I do have the index on a page for itself. Can I specify a page-master
from my titlepages specification? Or can I specify a number of column
in some way that don't require the use of a page-master?
I'm using DocBook 5.0, docbook-xsl-ns-1.73.2, and fop 0.94.
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Rasmus Kaj <>
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