From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21095 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2003 13:16:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact docbook-tools-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: docbook-tools-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21084 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2003 13:16:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO court.aleph1.co.uk) (195.224.76.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 2003 13:16:06 -0000 Received: from knossos.aleph1.co.uk ([194.70.44.161] ident=mail) by court.aleph1.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AM5iB-0007Bc-00; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:16:07 +0000 Received: from wookey by knossos.aleph1.co.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AM5iB-0007Df-00; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:16:07 +0000 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:16:00 -0000 From: Wookey To: Herman Bruyninckx Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Best way to create an index? Message-ID: <20031118131606.GC23532@knossos.aleph1.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Aleph One Ltd User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 +++ Herman Bruyninckx [03-11-17 20:04 +0100]: > I have a (steadily growing) number of docbook manuals, but haven't > been able to generate an index for them. I have the > ... > tags in the documents, but don't know how to process them :-) me too :-) I managed to produce an index for the HTML versions of my docs (using collateindex.pl) but never got it to work properly for the PDF versions. I can generate an index but most of the page numbers don't get filled in and many that do are wrong. It seems that changing from SGML to XML toolchains is now deemed a good idea. Does anyone know if this will improve the index-generation for printed docs? herman. The answer I was given to this question a couple of years ago was 'find a script called collateindex.pl and follow the instructions in it'. As I say, this 'mostly' worked but not well enough to produce publishable (on paper) indexes. Good docs on the subject seem remarkably hard to come by given what a common problem it must be. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/