PDF Index Entries Use Carriage Return Before Page Numbers

[UrsulaT]

Hello, how would I specify that I want the page numbers for index entries in my PDF output to be on the same line as the index entry, so that the following:

Abs
44
Acos
45, 80
AdornmentInfo
57

Looks like this:

Abs 44
Acos 45, 80
AdornmentInfo 57

I am using RenderEX XEP to generate my PDF files.

[Radu]

Hi,

I published a small sample DITA Map (OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\samples\dita\flowers\flowers.ditamap) to PDF using XEP and the Index page showed the page numbers next to the index terms. It probably depends on how you use the <indexterm> element to mark words.

Regards,
Radu

[UrsulaT]

Thanks for responding. I use the index tags as follows

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<indexterm>ButtonPads<indexterm>ICONDEMO</indexterm></indexterm>

They are often in a prolog tags like:

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	<prolog>

		<metadata>

			<keywords>

				<indexterm>Deleting<indexterm>menu items</indexterm></indexterm>

				<indexterm>Deleting<indexterm>menus</indexterm></indexterm>

				<indexterm>Transport menus file</indexterm>

			</keywords>

		</metadata>

	</prolog>

I reference the index in my ditamap like so:

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	<backmatter>

		<booklists>

			<indexlist/>

		</booklists>

	</backmatter>

The issue I have with the placement of the page numbers (below the ancestor and leaf index terms) happens when I press to PDF through Oxygen. We have a home-grown ditaot implementation that we are replacing, and I did not have this issue when pressing to PDF through that.

I am using RenderEX XEP 4.21 with Oxygen Author 14. I have looked through the DITA spec and can see nothing that would give me a hint as to what might be causing this. If you have any additional ideas or guesses, I would appreciate it.

Thank you,
Ursula

[Radu]

Hi Ursula,

I have a sample bookmap and I added a prolog exactly like the one you suggested in one of my topics:

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<prolog>

  <metadata>

   <keywords>

    <indexterm>Deleting<indexterm>menu items</indexterm></indexterm>

    <indexterm>Deleting<indexterm>menus</indexterm></indexterm>

    <indexterm>Transport menus file</indexterm>

   </keywords>

  </metadata>

 </prolog>

I published the bookmap to PDF using XEP 4.16 and an unmodified version of Oxygen Author 14.2 with an unmodified bundled DITA OT and the index page looked like this:



Are you sure you did not add any customizations to the index-term related XSLT stylesheets DITA OT used for publishing?

Regards,
Radu

[UrsulaT]

Thank you Radu, for testing this. It is very helpful to me, as it points to an issue in our setup. I did not think that we have customizations that would affect the index, but we must have set something. I will check in with our other writers to see what has been customized that could affect how our index is being processed.

Again, thank you for taking the time to look at this, I very much appreciate it! I will investigate further.

Cheers
Ursula