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| author | mguetlein <martin.guetlein@gmail.com> | 2010-12-09 16:39:22 +0100 |
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| committer | mguetlein <martin.guetlein@gmail.com> | 2010-12-09 16:39:22 +0100 |
| commit | 3fd24182bee64ea2252aa494e5930c9c9924d1d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 9af11d6624bfe0566f768b0a0a227d50216327dc /docbook-xsl-1.75.2/params/make.index.markup.xml | |
| parent | 7459525cbf5cc8ed4afcbaa3a0749828098a8f48 (diff) | |
add significance tests to reports, some more report modifications
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diff --git a/docbook-xsl-1.75.2/params/make.index.markup.xml b/docbook-xsl-1.75.2/params/make.index.markup.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 7942b5a..0000000 --- a/docbook-xsl-1.75.2/params/make.index.markup.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" - xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" - xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" - xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment" - xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" - version="5.0" xml:id="make.index.markup"> -<refmeta> -<refentrytitle>make.index.markup</refentrytitle> -<refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo> -</refmeta> -<refnamediv> -<refname>make.index.markup</refname> -<refpurpose>Generate XML index markup in the index?</refpurpose> -</refnamediv> - -<refsynopsisdiv> -<src:fragment xml:id="make.index.markup.frag"> -<xsl:param name="make.index.markup" select="0"/> -</src:fragment> -</refsynopsisdiv> - -<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info> - -<para>This parameter enables a very neat trick for getting properly -merged, collated back-of-the-book indexes. G. Ken Holman suggested -this trick at Extreme Markup Languages 2002 and I'm indebted to him -for it.</para> - -<para>Jeni Tennison's excellent code in -<filename>autoidx.xsl</filename> does a great job of merging and -sorting <tag>indexterm</tag>s in the document and building a -back-of-the-book index. However, there's one thing that it cannot -reasonably be expected to do: merge page numbers into ranges. (I would -not have thought that it could collate and suppress duplicate page -numbers, but in fact it appears to manage that task somehow.)</para> - -<para>Ken's trick is to produce a document in which the index at the -back of the book is <quote>displayed</quote> in XML. Because the index -is generated by the FO processor, all of the page numbers have been resolved. -It's a bit hard to explain, but what it boils down to is that instead of having -an index at the back of the book that looks like this:</para> - -<blockquote> -<formalpara><info><title>A</title></info> -<para>ap1, 1, 2, 3</para> -</formalpara> -</blockquote> - -<para>you get one that looks like this:</para> - -<blockquote> -<programlisting><indexdiv>A</indexdiv> -<indexentry> -<primaryie>ap1</primaryie>, -<phrase role="pageno">1</phrase>, -<phrase role="pageno">2</phrase>, -<phrase role="pageno">3</phrase> -</indexentry></programlisting> -</blockquote> - -<para>After building a PDF file with this sort of odd-looking index, you can -extract the text from the PDF file and the result is a proper index expressed in -XML.</para> - -<para>Now you have data that's amenable to processing and a simple Perl script -(such as <filename>fo/pdf2index</filename>) can -merge page ranges and generate a proper index.</para> - -<para>Finally, reformat your original document using this literal index instead of -an automatically generated one and <quote>bingo</quote>!</para> - -</refsection> -</refentry> |