Re: DAVENPORT: collateindex.pl and the print TeX backend

[Sam Roberts <sam@cogent.ca>]

Glad the patch worked for you.

My use of indexterms has been fairly limited, so I haven't seen
what you have described below. It doesn't really surprise me,
if you use collateindex.pl without the -p option the default
is to attempt to link to the closest containing section. This is
determined by a fairly straight-forward algorithm, if I recall
the perl code correctly, it just chops off part of the text string,
assuming that the remainder will point to the section. Try
using the "-p" option, and also its worth reading the file that
the perl script generates. You can  probably see what its doing
if you compare  the tags that show up there with the sgml file
holding the indexterm to be referenced.

Sam

Alex Lancaster wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "SR" == Sam Roberts <sam@cogent.ca> writes:
> 
> SR> Alex Lancaster wrote:
> >>  Has anyone ever successfully used the `collateindex.pl' machinery
> >> to successfully (i.e. automatically!) generate an Index that
> >> actually has *page numbers* in the TeX backend (i.e. in the DVI or
> >> PostScript output)?
> 
> SR> Yes.
> 
> SR> There's a secret way, you have to use the "-p" option, or apply
> SR> the following patch to collateindex.pl: [I emailed this to Norm,
> SR> but it may have gotten lost 8-)].
> 
> [...]
> 
> SR> Try this, your mileage may vary of course, but it sounds like
> SR> you're where I was.
> 
> Thanks!  The patch worked!  The one remaining problem seems to be
> generating page numbers for INDEXTERMs that aren't immediately below a
> `SECT[1-9]', or aren't nested only one element away in the SGML.  In,
> other words, I can generate the page number correctly with:
> 
> <sect2 id="swarm.user.user3.05.sect2">
>   <title>Serialization</title>
> 
>   <indexterm>
>     <primary>serialization</primary>
>   </indexterm>
> 
> <para>blah...</para>
> </sect2>
> 
> or even:
> 
> <sect2 id="swarm.user.user3.05.sect2">
>   <title>Serialization</title>
> 
> <para>blah...
>   <indexterm>
>     <primary>serialization</primary>
>   </indexterm>
> </para>
> </sect2>
> 
> but I can't generate a page number for the INDEXTERM defined in the
> following way (the LISTITEM is inside of an ITEMIZEDLIST, inside a
> PARA inside a SECT1):
> 
> <sect1><title>blah</title>
> <para>blah...
> <itemizedlist>
> <listitem>
>  <indexterm significance="preferred">
>    <primary>HDF5</primary>
>  </indexterm>
>  <formalpara><title>HDF5</title><para>blah.. blah</para>
> </listitem>
> 
> [...]
> 
> Do you experience the same problem?
> 
>  --- Alex
> 
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