Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Linenumbering in literallayout

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:09:54AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
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> / Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com> was heard to say:
> | On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:47:30AM +0100, BigSmoke wrote:
> |> I have a document with some programlistings, which are discussed line-by-line
> |> by various sections. Everywhere I describe a line, the original line
> |> reappears as an excerpt. However, the only way to number them in DocBook seems
> |> to be to start by line 1, while I'd like to be able to use some sort of
> |> attribute that a programlisting starts at line 4, for example.
> |> 
> |> Am I overseeing already built-in semantics which could do the job or should
> |> I start customizing?
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> | The XSL stylesheets support a few processing instructions
> | for line numbering.  See:
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> Do we want/need the ability to start at a random number?

Yes.
 
> Do we also/instead need/want the ability to continue numbering from
> the previous listing?

Yes, I think "also".  8^)

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