1<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 2 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 3 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" 4 xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment" 5 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 6 version="5.0" xml:id="index.range.separator"> 7<refmeta> 8<refentrytitle>index.range.separator</refentrytitle> 9<refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">string</refmiscinfo> 10</refmeta> 11<refnamediv> 12<refname>index.range.separator</refname> 13<refpurpose>Override for punctuation separating the two numbers 14in a page range in index</refpurpose> 15</refnamediv> 16 17<refsynopsisdiv> 18<src:fragment xml:id="index.range.separator.frag"> 19<xsl:param name="index.range.separator"></xsl:param> 20</src:fragment> 21</refsynopsisdiv> 22 23<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info> 24 25<para>This parameter permits you 26to override the text to insert between 27the two numbers of a page range in an index. 28This parameter is only used by those XSL-FO processors 29that support an extension for generating such page ranges 30(such as XEP).</para> 31 32<para>Because this text may be locale dependent, 33this parameter's value is normally taken from a gentext 34template named 'range-separator' in the 35context 'index' in the stylesheet 36locale file for the language 37of the current document. 38This parameter can be used to override the gentext string, 39and would typically be used on the command line. 40This parameter would apply to all languages. 41</para> 42 43<para>So this text string can be customized in two ways. 44You can reset the default gentext string using 45the <parameter>local.l10n.xml</parameter> parameter, or you can 46override the gentext with the content of this parameter. 47The content can be a simple string, or it can be 48something more complex such as a call-template. 49</para> 50 51<para>In HTML index output, section title references are used instead of 52page number references. So there are no page ranges 53and this parameter has no effect. 54</para> 55 56</refsection> 57</refentry> 58