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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:03:18 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        papowell@astart.com
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can a DocBook Wizard Spare A Few Minutes?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000616195833.2206B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <200006132056.NAA03484@h4.private>

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On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 papowell@astart.com wrote:

> I just converted a fairly large LinuxBook SGML document to
> DocBook,  using the Brute Force and Massive Ignorance approach.
> 
> Strangely enough, it went pretty smoothly.  However,
> I have run into a couple of problems,  that probably have
> answers,  but I have not been able to find them on this list.
> 
> I will summarize them,  and perhaps this might actually get put into
> the DocProj Primer (hint hint) someday.
> 
> 1.  Deeper TOC Listings for HTML Output
> 
>     Right now the TOC only does two levels of listing.  I would
>     like to increase the depth.  How do I do this?
>     NOW                     WANT
> 
>     main                    main
>      main.1                  main.1
>       main.1.1                main.1.1
>        main.1.1.1              main.1.1.1
>        main.1.1.2              main.1.1.2
>      main.2                   main.2
>       main.2.1                 main.2.1                   
> 
>      ...
> 
> 2.  How Do I Produce an Index?  I would like to do this
>     for both HTML and PS output,  but I would be happy
>     with just PS output.
>     a) the markup notation in the body
>     b) the jade + tex + tools to use
> 

FWIW:

I have produced all my indexes of DocBook documents using a program called
makeindex and a slightly hacked copy of sgmlfmt.

It's SGML -> troff -> PS

It should be possible to port the solution to the DSSSL stylesheets.

> 
> Patrick Powell                 Astart Technologies,
> papowell@astart.com            9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D,
> Network and System             San Diego, CA 92123
>   Consulting                   858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424 
> LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)
> 



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