Re: Docbook in Red Hat 7.1

[Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk>]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Wookey wrote:

> On Tue 24 Apr, Edward C. Bailey wrote:
> > >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk> writes:
> >  Using collateindex.pl seems to be non-trivial.
>
> > It's not that bad, really.  Basically you run your SGML through jade once
> > to get an HTML index file; then you run collateindex.pl against this,
> > creating a DocBook index.  Finally, you run your SGML (including the
> > newly-generated index) through jade one last time.
>
> Do you know if this/the new set of files/tools works properly for PDF index
> generation?
>
> I posted here a while back about how I can generate a perfectly good SGML
> index file using collateindex, and that db2html does a fine job of then
> generating an html book with an index.
>
> But if I try to do the same for PDF the final PDF index only has some 30% of
> the references filled out, and most of those seem to be wrong. No-one had any
> suggestions as to what might be going wrong and my understanding of the
> process is too poor to know what to fiddle with. Doing a small (few pages)
> PDF file seemed to work OK, but my full (150 pages) book suffers the above
> problem, so right now it is annoyingly indexless.

Strange - I seem to be able run a set of books together
with the new RH 7.1 tools and produce 800 pages (five
books collected) with more than 1000 index-words -
seems to be fine.

However the who idea of using flo-* is still "young" -
it lacks support for set-indexes (now only ordinary
indexes are ok), national language-settings etc. I am
hacking on those problems right now.


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