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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="AsciiDoc 8.6.7" />
<title>Flexndex - a document index generator</title>
<style type="text/css">
/* Shared CSS for AsciiDoc xhtml11 and html5 backends */
/* Default font. */
body {
font-family: Georgia,serif;
}
/* Title font. */
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6,
div.title, caption.title,
thead, p.table.header,
#toctitle,
#author, #revnumber, #revdate, #revremark,
#footer {
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}
body {
margin: 1em 5% 1em 5%;
}
a {
color: blue;
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:visited {
color: fuchsia;
}
em {
font-style: italic;
color: navy;
}
strong {
font-weight: bold;
color: #083194;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
color: #527bbd;
margin-top: 1.2em;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
line-height: 1.3;
}
h1, h2, h3 {
border-bottom: 2px solid silver;
}
h2 {
padding-top: 0.5em;
}
h3 {
float: left;
}
h3 + * {
clear: left;
}
h5 {
font-size: 1.0em;
}
div.sectionbody {
margin-left: 0;
}
hr {
border: 1px solid silver;
}
p {
margin-top: 0.5em;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}
ul, ol, li > p {
margin-top: 0;
}
ul > li { color: #aaa; }
ul > li > * { color: black; }
.monospaced, code, tt, pre {
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size: inherit;
color: navy;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#author {
color: #527bbd;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 1.1em;
}
#email {
}
#revnumber, #revdate, #revremark {
}
#footer {
font-size: small;
border-top: 2px solid silver;
padding-top: 0.5em;
margin-top: 4.0em;
}
#footer-text {
float: left;
padding-bottom: 0.5em;
}
#footer-badges {
float: right;
padding-bottom: 0.5em;
}
#preamble {
margin-top: 1.5em;
margin-bottom: 1.5em;
}
div.imageblock, div.exampleblock, div.verseblock,
div.quoteblock, div.literalblock, div.listingblock, div.sidebarblock,
div.admonitionblock {
margin-top: 1.0em;
margin-bottom: 1.5em;
}
div.admonitionblock {
margin-top: 2.0em;
margin-bottom: 2.0em;
margin-right: 10%;
color: #606060;
}
div.content { /* Block element content. */
padding: 0;
}
/* Block element titles. */
div.title, caption.title {
color: #527bbd;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: left;
margin-top: 1.0em;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}
div.title + * {
margin-top: 0;
}
td div.title:first-child {
margin-top: 0.0em;
}
div.content div.title:first-child {
margin-top: 0.0em;
}
div.content + div.title {
margin-top: 0.0em;
}
div.sidebarblock > div.content {
background: #ffffee;
border: 1px solid #dddddd;
border-left: 4px solid #f0f0f0;
padding: 0.5em;
}
div.listingblock > div.content {
border: 1px solid #dddddd;
border-left: 5px solid #f0f0f0;
background: #f8f8f8;
padding: 0.5em;
}
div.quoteblock, div.verseblock {
padding-left: 1.0em;
margin-left: 1.0em;
margin-right: 10%;
border-left: 5px solid #f0f0f0;
color: #888;
}
div.quoteblock > div.attribution {
padding-top: 0.5em;
text-align: right;
}
div.verseblock > pre.content {
font-family: inherit;
font-size: inherit;
}
div.verseblock > div.attribution {
padding-top: 0.75em;
text-align: left;
}
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div.verseblock + div.attribution {
text-align: left;
}
div.admonitionblock .icon {
vertical-align: top;
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: underline;
color: #527bbd;
padding-right: 0.5em;
}
div.admonitionblock td.content {
padding-left: 0.5em;
border-left: 3px solid #dddddd;
}
div.exampleblock > div.content {
border-left: 3px solid #dddddd;
padding-left: 0.5em;
}
div.imageblock div.content { padding-left: 0; }
span.image img { border-style: none; }
a.image:visited { color: white; }
dl {
margin-top: 0.8em;
margin-bottom: 0.8em;
}
dt {
margin-top: 0.5em;
margin-bottom: 0;
font-style: normal;
color: navy;
}
dd > *:first-child {
margin-top: 0.1em;
}
ul, ol {
list-style-position: outside;
}
ol.arabic {
list-style-type: decimal;
}
ol.loweralpha {
list-style-type: lower-alpha;
}
ol.upperalpha {
list-style-type: upper-alpha;
}
ol.lowerroman {
list-style-type: lower-roman;
}
ol.upperroman {
list-style-type: upper-roman;
}
div.compact ul, div.compact ol,
div.compact p, div.compact p,
div.compact div, div.compact div {
margin-top: 0.1em;
margin-bottom: 0.1em;
}
tfoot {
font-weight: bold;
}
td > div.verse {
white-space: pre;
}
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margin-top: 0.8em;
margin-bottom: 0.8em;
}
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padding-bottom: 15px;
}
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font-weight: bold;
}
td.hdlist1 {
vertical-align: top;
font-style: normal;
padding-right: 0.8em;
color: navy;
}
td.hdlist2 {
vertical-align: top;
}
div.hdlist.compact tr {
margin: 0;
padding-bottom: 0;
}
.comment {
background: yellow;
}
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font-size: 0.8em;
}
span.footnote, span.footnoteref {
vertical-align: super;
}
#footnotes {
margin: 20px 0 20px 0;
padding: 7px 0 0 0;
}
#footnotes div.footnote {
margin: 0 0 5px 0;
}
#footnotes hr {
border: none;
border-top: 1px solid silver;
height: 1px;
text-align: left;
margin-left: 0;
width: 20%;
min-width: 100px;
}
div.colist td {
padding-right: 0.5em;
padding-bottom: 0.3em;
vertical-align: top;
}
div.colist td img {
margin-top: 0.3em;
}
@media print {
#footer-badges { display: none; }
}
#toc {
margin-bottom: 2.5em;
}
#toctitle {
color: #527bbd;
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: bold;
margin-top: 1.0em;
margin-bottom: 0.1em;
}
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margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
}
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margin-left: 2em;
font-size: 0.9em;
}
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margin-left: 4em;
font-size: 0.9em;
}
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margin-left: 6em;
font-size: 0.9em;
}
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span.black { color: black; }
span.blue { color: blue; }
span.fuchsia { color: fuchsia; }
span.gray { color: gray; }
span.green { color: green; }
span.lime { color: lime; }
span.maroon { color: maroon; }
span.navy { color: navy; }
span.olive { color: olive; }
span.purple { color: purple; }
span.red { color: red; }
span.silver { color: silver; }
span.teal { color: teal; }
span.white { color: white; }
span.yellow { color: yellow; }
span.aqua-background { background: aqua; }
span.black-background { background: black; }
span.blue-background { background: blue; }
span.fuchsia-background { background: fuchsia; }
span.gray-background { background: gray; }
span.green-background { background: green; }
span.lime-background { background: lime; }
span.maroon-background { background: maroon; }
span.navy-background { background: navy; }
span.olive-background { background: olive; }
span.purple-background { background: purple; }
span.red-background { background: red; }
span.silver-background { background: silver; }
span.teal-background { background: teal; }
span.white-background { background: white; }
span.yellow-background { background: yellow; }
span.big { font-size: 2em; }
span.small { font-size: 0.6em; }
span.underline { text-decoration: underline; }
span.overline { text-decoration: overline; }
span.line-through { text-decoration: line-through; }
div.unbreakable { page-break-inside: avoid; }
/*
* xhtml11 specific
*
* */
div.tableblock {
margin-top: 1.0em;
margin-bottom: 1.5em;
}
div.tableblock > table {
border: 3px solid #527bbd;
}
thead, p.table.header {
font-weight: bold;
color: #527bbd;
}
p.table {
margin-top: 0;
}
/* Because the table frame attribute is overriden by CSS in most browsers. */
div.tableblock > table[frame="void"] {
border-style: none;
}
div.tableblock > table[frame="hsides"] {
border-left-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
}
div.tableblock > table[frame="vsides"] {
border-top-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
}
/*
* html5 specific
*
* */
table.tableblock {
margin-top: 1.0em;
margin-bottom: 1.5em;
}
thead, p.tableblock.header {
font-weight: bold;
color: #527bbd;
}
p.tableblock {
margin-top: 0;
}
table.tableblock {
border-width: 3px;
border-spacing: 0px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #527bbd;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
th.tableblock, td.tableblock {
border-width: 1px;
padding: 4px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #527bbd;
}
table.tableblock.frame-topbot {
border-left-style: hidden;
border-right-style: hidden;
}
table.tableblock.frame-sides {
border-top-style: hidden;
border-bottom-style: hidden;
}
table.tableblock.frame-none {
border-style: hidden;
}
th.tableblock.halign-left, td.tableblock.halign-left {
text-align: left;
}
th.tableblock.halign-center, td.tableblock.halign-center {
text-align: center;
}
th.tableblock.halign-right, td.tableblock.halign-right {
text-align: right;
}
th.tableblock.valign-top, td.tableblock.valign-top {
vertical-align: top;
}
th.tableblock.valign-middle, td.tableblock.valign-middle {
vertical-align: middle;
}
th.tableblock.valign-bottom, td.tableblock.valign-bottom {
vertical-align: bottom;
}
/*
* manpage specific
*
* */
body.manpage h1 {
padding-top: 0.5em;
padding-bottom: 0.5em;
border-top: 2px solid silver;
border-bottom: 2px solid silver;
}
body.manpage h2 {
border-style: none;
}
body.manpage div.sectionbody {
margin-left: 3em;
}
@media print {
body.manpage div#toc { display: none; }
}
</style>
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* http://students.infoiasi.ro/~mishoo
*
* Table Of Content generator
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*
* Feel free to use this script under the terms of the GNU General Public
* License, as long as you do not remove or alter this notice.
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<div id="header">
<h1>Flexndex - a document index generator</h1>
<span id="author">Lex Trotman</span><br />
<span id="email"><tt><<a href="mailto:elextr@gmail.com">elextr@gmail.com</a>></tt></span><br />
<span id="revdate">v0.1alpha</span>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_introduction">1. Introduction</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Most documentation tools let you generate an index of terms in the
document, but often it is useful to be able to generate indices for
special purposes. For example if you are documenting software and
index to functions, an index to types etc may be useful.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Flexndex is a flexible tool to generate multiple indices as document
internal links, making it usable with most XML based document formats,
eg xhtml, docbook or Open Document Format.</p></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_terminology">2. Terminology</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
index
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
a list of index entries organised by category
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
index entry
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
a link to a target in the document where there is
content relevant to the categories of the entry
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
target
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
the point in the document that you want an index entry to
point to with a list of terms for categorisation
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
terms
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
hierarchical set of text items to categorize the entry within
the index
</p>
</dd>
</dl></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_operation">3. Operation</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Flexndex takes index target information encoded in XML comments,
generates the link anchor at that position and records the specified
index terms. It also takes requests for index inclusion encoded in XML
comments and generates lists of links to the relevant targets at that
position.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The markup of anchors and link lists is configurable and selected by
name then document type, so documents in several formats can be
accomodated.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Flexndex does not specify how the formatted XML comments are included
in the document, but most document tools allow their inclusion, see
<a href="#uwa">Using with Asciidoc</a> for an example of configuring the
Asciidoc tool.</p></div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_index_generation_process">3.1. Index Generation Process</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The index content is created by the following steps:</p></div>
<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
selection of entries to include,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
sorting of entries,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
generation of missing entries,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
iteration through the entries performing:
</p>
<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
filtering of entries, and
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
substitution of terms and attributes of the entry into output
markup templates from the configuration settings.
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
</li>
</ul></div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_selection_of_entries">3.1.1. Selection of Entries</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Selection is by the name of the index and a set of terms that must be
a prefix of the terms in the entries. Specifying no terms means no
selection, all entries for the index are shown.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_sorting_of_entries">3.1.2. Sorting of entries</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The selected entries are sorted by each level in order comparing the
terms by Unicode code point.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_generation">3.1.3. Generation</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Only the leaf nodes of the hierarchy of terms are specified by the
<strong>ix</strong> comment. However some display styles require the internal levels
for display. Missing levels are generated during the iteration process.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>See <a href="#confset">Configuration Settings</a> for settings controlling
generation.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="sect3">
<h4 id="_iteration">3.1.4. Iteration</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The default iteration of entries is simply in sorted order start to
finish, but options outlined in <a href="#iir">Index Inclusion Request</a> allow
iteration orders suitable for multiple column output.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>For each entry the terms in the entry are iterated in increasing level
order.</p></div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="_filtering">Filtering</h5>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In some use-cases not all entries need to be displayed, but they are
needed for generation of missing entries. The display filters specify
which entries to display.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Filtering can also limit which terms within entries are displayed.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>See <a href="#iir">Index Inclusion Request</a> for filter control attributes.</p></div>
</div>
<div class="sect4">
<h5 id="_substitution">Substitution</h5>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The substitution templates are chosen using the iteration components
(eg level). See <a href="#confset">Configuration Settings</a> for the
components supported.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The attributes are substituted as defined in <a href="#Substitutions">[Substitutions]</a>.</p></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_comment_format">4. Comment Format</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_index_target_definitions">4.1. Index Target Definitions</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The format of the comments specifying index terms is:</p></div>
<div class=listingblock><div class=content><pre><code><!-- ix indexname <attribute_list> --></code></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Note that the spaces shown above are part of the format, use only one
space.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <tt>indexname</tt> is the name of the index this target is part of.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <tt>attribute_list</tt> is a comma separated list of:</p></div>
<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
index terms in order of primary, secondary, tertiary etc, followed by
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
named attributes in name=value form.
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To include comma or equals in an attribute value or name include them twice.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Flexndex does not restrict how many levels an index has.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Named attributes other than the predefined ones will be available for
substitution into the output markup, either in the anchor or the entry
in the index.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The predefined named attributes are:</p></div>
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
text
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
the text to use in the index entry for links to this target.
</p>
</dd>
</dl></div>
</div>
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="iir">4.2. Index Inclusion Request</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The format of the comments requesting inclusion of an index is:</p></div>
<div class=listingblock><div class=content><pre><code><!-- ixhere indexname <attribute_list> --></code></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Note that the spaces shown above are part of the format, use only one
space.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <tt>indexname</tt> selects name of the index to put here.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The attribute list has the same format as the index term definition.
Any initial index terms select only entries that are prefixed by the
specified terms.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To include comma or equals in an attribute value or name include them twice.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Named attributes other than the predefined ones will be available for
substitution into the output markup of the index.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The predefined named attributes are:</p></div>
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
cols
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
specify collimation parameters, format is nnidbbb where:
</p>
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
nn
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
is the number of columns (decimal number)
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
id
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
is the iteration and direction control, l = linear or i =
interlaced and r = by row or c = by column. Note: Only <em>lc</em> is
implemented in v0.1.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
bbb
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
is the column break control, default (no bbb) = make columns as
close to same length as possible, lnn = break at level nn (or less),
but won’t change column length by more than 20%
</p>
</dd>
</dl></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
indents
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
how much to indent each column by, level*this value is put
in {ixindent} attribute, default 0
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
levels
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
filter the output to entries whose length falls in the range
specified and limit display to these levels.