[xep-support] involved xfers and codeblock line numbering

[John Accardi]

Thanks, Eliot.

These are very good ideas that I will try.

John

W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
> John Accardi wrote:
>> I am trying to produce PDF with involved xrefs and line numbering for
>> codeblock lines as shown here in this Framemaker produced PDF snippet:
>
> FO 1.1 doesn't have any defined facility for doing line numbering, but 
> in the case of a code sample, where each line is well defined, you can 
> easily transform the code lines into a table or list block where each 
> line is one row or list item, generating the line numbers and 
> providing FO-level IDs for doing the line number referencing.
>
> I don't know of DITA provides any source markup for this--worst case 
> you'd have to specialize the "data" element provide a link anchor for 
> the lines you want to refer to and some way to set the initial line 
> number of a given code block.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eliot
>

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