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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: redundant pages in index
Matthew Hobbs wrote: > > I produce PDF from DocBook XML using openjade and pdftex. I want to make an > index and have finally managed to do this using collateindex.pl. However I > am disappointed to find that my index turns out to have considerable > redundancy . Indeed the collateindex.pl output warns that: > > Duplicates may be removed in the HTML backend, but in the print > backends, it is impossible to suppress duplicate pages or coalesce > sequences of pages into a range. > > Is there no way around this? If you must stick with DSSSL and can use RTF and MS Word + Distiller to get PDF there is a solution. I posted it 1-2 years ago to this list. It uses small modifications to stylesheet and some RTF postprocessing to use RTF/Word bookmarks which are replaced by page ranges in index. Jirka -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz
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