Index creation

Index creation

[Andreas Kostyrka]

Hi!

I've been wondering how to create an index with the current docbook tools?

Adding <indexterm>s doesn't work, even when one adds an empty
<index></index> section (as it is done with <toc></toc>).

Andreas
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Re: Index Creation

[Edward C. Bailey]

>>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com> writes:

Chuck> Will db2html generate an index if text from the document is tagged
Chuck> for it?

No.  However, check out the collateindex.pl script in the stylesheets RPM.
It'll do the trick...

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Index Creation

[Chuck Mead]

Will db2html generate an index if text from the document is tagged for it?

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Re: Index Creation

[Chuck Mead]

On 23 Jan 2000, Edward C. Bailey said:

ECB>>>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com> writes:
ECB>
ECB>Chuck> Will db2html generate an index if text from the document is tagged
ECB>Chuck> for it?
ECB>
ECB>No.  However, check out the collateindex.pl script in the stylesheets RPM.
ECB>It'll do the trick...

Thanx Ed I would never have known! :-)

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Re: Index Creation

[Norman Walsh]

/ Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com> was heard to say:
| Will db2html generate an index if text from the document is tagged for it?

I don't know, but generating an index is multi-step process.
See http://nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/doc/otherdoc.html

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Re: Index Creation

[Chuck Mead]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Norman Walsh said:

NW>/ Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com> was heard to say:
NW>| Will db2html generate an index if text from the document is tagged for it?
NW>
NW>I don't know, but generating an index is multi-step process.
NW>See http://nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/doc/otherdoc.html

Thank you... I was already playing with the collateindex.pl script... This
pointer to documentation on the process will help a lot!

:-)

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Re: Index creation

[Christophe Guillon]

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	You have to do it in a two-pass process (for more information get the
docbook stylesheets documentation http://nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/db146d.zip ) :

	Run jade with the html-index variable set and the html stylesheet :
	jade -t sgml -d ...html/docbook.dsl -V html-index file.sgm

	generate the index pages with collateindex.pl (in the bin directory of the 
docbook stylesheets distribution) :
	perl collateindex.pl -o genindex.sgm

	Reprocess your document with jade
	jade -t sgml -d .../docbook.dsl file.sgm

	Your document must contain an external entity inclusion for the generated 
index :

	<...[
	<!ENTITY index	SYSTEM "genindex.sgm">
	]>
	...
	<!-- at a chapter/section level in your document -->
	&index;


	C.Guillon