Re: Counting lines

[Norman Walsh <norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI:

In response to something I said:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Norman Walsh wrote:
> > For example, suppose I wanted to write a style sheet that could
> > enumerate the lines of a ProgramListing in DocBook so that
> > 
> > <programlisting>
> > int main (int argc, char **argv)
> > {
> >   ...
> > }
> > </programlisting>
> > 
> > came out as
> > 
> >  1. int main (int argc, char **argv)
> >  2. {
> >       ...
> > 97. }
> > 
> > Can I?  (er, no, _I_ can't ;-)  But can it be done?! ;-)
> 

Norbert replied:

> Not that I have ever tried it, but the paragraph flowobject
> has the characteristics line-number and numbered-lines?.
> From what I read there, it should work. (page 222 and 223 
> in the standard)

And James said:

> This isn't in dsssl-o and isn't implemented in Jade.

But borrowing a technique from a posting by Henry Thompson,
the most recent DocBook stylesheets do include a (fairly
fragile) option to number lines in linespecific elements.

'thought you might want to know...

--norm


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