The pdf file for the Gimp Users Manual. Dec 2005 edition does not come with an index. I am thinking of preparing my own (which I will share of course.) Has anyone found an index to this manual on the site?

On Friday 17 February 2006 15:54, Axel Wernicke wrote:

Am 17.02.2006 um 21:42 schrieb John R. Culleton:

The pdf file for the Gimp Users Manual. Dec 2005 edition does not come with an index.

This might be true for the dec issue of the english manual but is rather a temporarily weakness of the pdf production process ( docbook -> (la)tex -> pdf ) then a general problem. The german version I've build a couple of days ago has an index.

I am thinking of preparing my own (which I will share of course.)

You want to prepare what? An index or a manual? The first one is already done in each docbook chapter. (Well, it *might* be that there is room for improvements of course :)

As the subject line implies I am talking about a BOB index. There is a page for it but no index. So someone needs to run LaTeX or pdflatex twice to get the index properly included in the pdf file. If the html version has an index, and the pagination is the same as the pdf file, I can use that index instead of course.

haknOn Friday 17 February 2006 15:57, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

"John R. Culleton" writes:

The pdf file for the Gimp Users Manual. Dec 2005 edition does not come with an index. I am thinking of preparing my own (which I will share of course.) Has anyone found an index to this manual on the site?

The manual is written in Docbook XML. It should be a lot easier to generate a PDF that contains an index than to attempt to create one manually. Especially since the manual index will be outdated pretty soon. The manual is undergoing changes on a daily basis.

Sven

Thanks for your reply. Are the docbook sources posted somewhere? If so I could download them and go through the usual index generation steps.

When you say the manual is undergoing changes on a daily basis are you referring to the downloadable pdf or just the html versions? The date on the manual I downloaded was December 28, 2005. I assume it is the latest pdf version.

Best,

John Culleton

On Friday 17 February 2006 17:42, Axel Wernicke wrote:

both - html and pdf versions are more or less automatically build from docbook (xml) sources. Since building the html files is much more robust to inconsintencies like missing image files etc. they are available in more recent versions than the pdf files are. Building them is more art then science right now...

... feel free to get involved!

Best,

I'll look into it to see if I have something to contribute. As a professional indexer I might be able to help in that department. I use TeX plus Makeindex to generate indexes.