Hi,
will this actually make it in the official docbook stylesheets?
Camille.
Le jeu 27/11/2003 à 13:39, Jirka Kosek a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> automatic indexing which is available in the DocBook XSL stylesheets is
> working quite well for English, but for other languages it lacks several
> features.
>
> From my own experience, following functionality is missing:
>
> - allow to group accented letters like e, é, ë into the same group under
> letter "e"
>
> - treat special letters (e.g. "ch") as one character and place them in
> correct position (e.g. between "h" and "i")
>
> Attached customization layer is able to solve these two issues. If you
> want to try it, just import original fo/docbook.xsl into your
> customization layer and then include attached file. It was tested under
> Saxon, but should work in any processor which implements EXSLT function
> extension.
>
> Current settings are suitable for Czech language, but you can easily
> modify them by editing content of l:letters element:
>
> <l:letters lang="cs">
> ...
> <l i="1">A</l>
> <l i="1">a</l>
> <l i="1">Á</l>
> <l i="1">á</l>
> <l i="2">B</l>
> <l i="2">b</l>
> ...
> <l i="10">H</l>
> <l i="10">h</l>
> <l i="11">Ch</l>
> <l i="11">ch</l>
> <l i="11">cH</l>
> <l i="11">CH</l>
> <l i="12">I</l>
> <l i="12">i</l>
> ...
> </l:letters>
>
> This snippet means that letters A, a, Á, á will be put under the same
> group in the index (they have same i attribute) and that letter "a" will
> be sorted before "b" which has i=2. Later elements define that "ch" will
> be placed between "h" and "i".
>
> I will appreciate if you could:
>
> - test solution and give me feedback
> - send me <l:letter lang="xx"> table for languages you are using
> - write me that this solution can't handle properly your language and
> write me what must be improved in order to fix it
>
> After gathering your feedback I will add this file into standard DocBook
> XSL stylesheets.
>
> Jirka
