Re: Thumb register

Thomas Schraitle <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:53:42 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.text.docbook.apps
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Hi,

On Montag, 20. Juli 2020 09:40:33 CEST Norman Tovey-Walsh wrote:
> Bernhard Kleine <[email protected]> writes:
> > I have used a thumb register in a book produced with LaTeX. That was
> > fairly straight forward. I wonder whether this is also possible with
> > docbook -> PDF. Is there a solution already?
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but what is a “thumb register”?

If I understood Bernhard correctly, it's a "thumb index":

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb_index

Of course, you cannot cut off a specific parts of a page with XSL FO, but you 
can "simulate" that by having a colored space at the page margin.

Hope that helps.

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Gruß/Regards
  Thomas Schraitle