Re: [docbook-apps] alignment of second column on index page

[Roger Meier <roger at bufferoverflow dot ch>]

I decided to put my index on a single column page to fix the problem.

<xsl:param name="column.count.index" select="1"/>

Thank you very much.

Roger

Bob Stayton wrote:

>What you are seeing is that the German word for Index, Stichwortverzeichnis,
>does not fit in the horizontal space of the first column in the index.  What
>you want is for the title to span across both columns, pushing down the
>second column along with the first.  Unfortunately, that kind of column
>spanning is hard to do in the DocBook stylesheets because the block with the
>span property must be outside of all other blocks, which isn't the case for
>titles.
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>I think the easiest solution is to reduce the font size of the index "title"
>element.  You can do that by changing the titlepage spec file for the index
>title pages, and then rebuilding the titlepage templates.  See this
>reference for how to do that:
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>http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TitlePagePrint.html
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>Bob Stayton
>Sagehill Enterprises
>DocBook Consulting
>bobs@sagehill.net
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Roger Meier" <roger@bufferoverflow.ch>
>To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
>Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 12:05 PM
>Subject: [docbook-apps] alignment of second column on index page
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>>hello
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>>I have a problem with the alignment of the second column
>>on the index page in my pdf document(page 53 on the attached file).
>>It overlaps the title of the indexpage.
>>Does anybody know how to fix this problem ?
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>>I use the DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.64.1 from norman walsh,
>>xsltproc 1.1.5 and fop 0.20.5.
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>>thank you very much
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>>roger meier
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>>sorry, about my english.... I'm still learning
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