Tl;dr;
What is the correct way to create an anchor in docbook? and is there a way that will make the anchor visible in writer?
Background
I am trying to split up documentation that was previously in single open office
documents into smaller asciidoc
documents which are both included in the main open office document and also converted to either or both of html
& pdf
.
I have this mostly working. I use asciidoctor
to create html. asciidoctor-pdf
to create pdf and a combination of asciidoctor and pandoc
to create .odt files. I also tried the python implementation of asciidoc
but found the interface less useable.
Round tripping between asciidoc and odt is obviously not possible. This is sort of a fusion where the master document is word processed but pieces of content that can be produced independently (think man pages - in fact that is one of several use cases) are included.
asciidoc to html:
asciidoctor -b html5 foo.adoc -o foo.html
asciidoc to pdf:
asciidoctor-pdf -b pdf foo.adoc -o foo.pdf
asciidoc to odt
asciidoctor -b docbook foo.adoc -o foo.docbook
pandoc --base-header-level=3 -V date:"" -V title:"" -f docbook foo.docbook -o foo.odt
With pandoc I have to nullify the date and title and set the header-level as desired for the section to be inserted as an extra complication.
I insert the resulting .odt into the main document using insert section
inside open office.
Note that the main document is not a master document as I could not find a way of creating a master document without also automatically splitting the file on h1 boundaries.
I have two main problems to resolve with this set-up. I would like to add headings in the asciidoc document as cross references and also create entries for them in the alphabetical index (actually the first heading would be suffcient). Is there a way to do this? Index markers in asciidoc do not result in entries in .odt file being created.
I am able to cross reference content in the inserted section using "insert reference/heading" and referencing the uniquely named header. However, whenever I use "update all" these cross references are invalidated. They are shown as "Error: Reference source not found".
[On a separate note I would also like a way to find broken cross references automatically]
I am currently using libreoffice - Version: 4.3.7.2
I am not adverse to switching version or flavours (i.e. apache) if one behaves better than the other.
I'm not sure if the answer is in the asciidoc or docbook parts of the chain. I would accept an answer which inserts a index entry at the start of the inserted section (top of the .adoc/docbook file) automatically.
I am also open to changing my toolchain to something that will work. For example I tried the asciidoc-odt backend and fell foul of https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf/issues/47 which does not inspire confidence. Using asciidoc-odt I avoid the need to create an intermediate docbook file. However, I still can't get the anchor to appear.
I can get a macro to create an anchor but at present I haven't figured out how to run the macro from the command line.