Re: Footnote and multicolumn using fop

Dear Ken,

thanks for your useful hints. I saw your website and there are very
interesting points.

My problem is that the page-wide footnote-reference-area overlappes the
column-wide main-reference-area, which is divided into 2 columns.
Strangely, looking at the image I sent, one column is perfectly separated
from the footnote, while only the other one is overlapped by the footnote.
In addition, when the footnote is in the left column, overlapping occurs
only at right and viceversa.

Thanks

Fausto



2016-12-11 13:58 GMT+01:00 G. Ken Holman <gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com>:

> I'm not a user of FOP personally, but I can observe that footnotes in
> XSL-FO are page-wide and not column-wide.  Other tools address column-wide
> footnotes through extensions.  Perhaps FOP has an extension you can use.
>
> If you look in the XSL-FO specification, you will see that column
> definition happens in the main-reference-area, that part of the page that
> is shrunk after allocating footnote space.  The main-reference-area is
> separted from the footnote-reference-area.
>
> There is a helpful diagram on page 209 of my XSL-FO book, a preview of
> which can be found on my web site.
>
> I hope this is helpful.
>
> . . . . . . Ken
>
> At 2016-12-10 00:44 +0100, Fausto Passariello wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I need help from the experienced people in the Group.
>>
>> I use fop version 2.0 for the xsl-fo->pdf transformation and I use an
>> xslt stylesheet to get the xsl-fo from a xml file.
>> I chose to have a page with a one column header and later a two column
>> layout. The before and after sections have a one column layout.
>> The one column header is got with a <fo:block span="2">blabla</fo:block>
>> which is positioned at the higher level under the flow element.
>> The problem is that I cannot generate a footnote which respects the
>> limits of the 2 columns. The footnote separator is one line which can span
>> 1 or 2 columns (I tried them both). The footnote spans the 2 columns and
>> overwrites over the other column.
>>
>> Here is xsl code used to make the transformation to the xsl-fo code, that
>> I use to write the footnote, which is surrounded by the fn tag in the xml
>> source.
>>
>> <xsl:template match="fn">
>> <fo:footnote>
>> <fo:inline font-size="smaller" baseline-shift="super">
>> <xsl:number count="fn" format="i"/>
>> </fo:inline>
>> <fo:footnote-body>
>> <fo:list-block provisional-distance-between-starts="20pt"
>> provisional-label-separation="5pt">
>> <fo:list-item>
>> <fo:list-item-label end-indent="label-end()">
>> <fo:block font-size="smaller" baseline-shift="super" line-height="0.9em">
>> <xsl:number count="fn" format="i"/>
>> </fo:block>
>> </fo:list-item-label>
>> <fo:list-item-body start-indent="body-start()">
>> <fo:block font-size="smaller"
>> line-height="0.9em">
>> <xsl:apply-templates/>
>> </fo:block>
>> </fo:list-item-body>
>> </fo:list-item>
>> </fo:list-block>
>> </fo:footnote-body>
>> </fo:footnote>
>> </xsl:template>
>>
>> I attach a picture of the wrong layout that I get.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help in solving this issue.
>>
>> Fausto (Italy)
>>
>> Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="multicolumn and footnote.JPG"
>> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="multicolumn and footnote.JPG"
>> X-Attachment-Id: f_iwifw0ar0
>>
>>
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