Re: How to suppress vertical whitespace from <indexter

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HTH

On 15 March 2018 at 23:14, Jeffrey Walton noloader@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have a DocBook v4.5 book at
> https://github.com/noloader/POWER8-crypto . I am use Ubuntu 16.04
> with:
>
>     $ xsltproc --version
>     Using libxml 20903, libxslt 10128 and libexslt 817
>     xsltproc was compiled against libxml 20903, libxslt 10128 and libexslt 817
>     libxslt 10128 was compiled against libxml 20903
>     libexslt 817 was compiled against libxml 20903
>
> I use this pattern shown below to generate index entries.
> (https://github.com/noloader/POWER8-crypto/blob/master/power8-crypto/ch01.xml#L45)
> .
>
> The problem is, the <indexterm> creates extra vertical whitespace
> wherever it is present. For example, ch01.xml#L45 (link above) has:
>
>     The book makes frequent references to... <end of paragraph>.
>         <indexterm>
>         <indexterm>
>         <indexterm>
>     Both POWER8 machines are IBM POWER System S822 ... <end of paragraph>.
>
> And it produces:
>
>     The book makes frequent references to... <end of paragraph>.
>         <whitespace>
>         <whitespace>
>         <whitespace>
>     Both POWER8 machines are IBM POWER System S822 ... <end of paragraph>.
>
> I understand there is space between paragraphs, and I expect "normal"
> spacing as if the <indexterm> were not present:
>
>     The book makes frequent references to... <end of paragraph>.
>         <whitespace>
>     Both POWER8 machines are IBM POWER System S822 ... <end of paragraph>.
>
> I am using this script to build the book:
> https://github.com/noloader/POWER8-crypto/blob/master/power8-crypto/make-book.sh
> . It is pretty boring and just calls:
>
>     XSL=/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/fo/docbook.xsl
>     xsltproc --xinclude "$XSL" book.xml > power8-crypto.fo
>
> My question is, how can I collapse the extra wheitespace into a single
> whitespace?
>
> I'm happy to use an xsltproc option to clooapse the whitespace. I am
> also happy to use sed or awk to remove them.
>
> Thank you in advance. And my apologies for the long post.
>
> ****************************************
>
> Here is a typical application of the <indexterm> pattern.
>
> <para>The book makes frequent references to
> <systemitem>gcc112</systemitem> and <systemitem>gcc119</systemitem>
> from the GCC Compile Farm...</para>
> <indexterm>
> <primary>Compile farm</primary>
> <secondary>gcc112</secondary>
> </indexterm>
> <indexterm>
> <primary>Compile farm</primary>
> <secondary>gcc119</secondary>
> </indexterm>
> <indexterm>
> <primary>Compile farm</primary>
> <secondary>POWER8</secondary>
> </indexterm>
> <para>Both POWER8 machines are IBM POWER System S822 with two CPU
> cards...</para>
> 



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