I don’t think anyone would object to this change. It’s more that no one has spent the time to make it happen.
On 8 July 2014 at 10:43:56 am, KARR, DAVID (dk0...@att.com) wrote: From: Luke Daley [mailto:luke.da...@gradleware.com] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 5:06 PM To: KARR, DAVID; dev@gradle.codehaus.org Subject: Re: [gradle-dev] user guide: Anyone ever look into displaying footnotes on same page as reference? On 8 July 2014 at 7:24:07 am, KARR, DAVID (dk0...@att.com) wrote: Footnotes in the user guide currently display at the end of the chapter. When you're reading a document or publication that uses this convention, do you ever go to the trouble of flipping to the end of the chapter, reading the footnote, and then paging back to where you were? If we want people to actually see those footnotes, we should figure out how to render this better. Unfortunately, I don't think this will be simple. It seems like the only possibility is for a complete conversion to the FO stylesheets, or FOP, and I'm not even certain we would get the the result I want. Perhaps there would be other rendering advantages from FOP that we could benefit from, as opposed to just the possibility of rendering footnotes better. What’s FO and FOP? FOP is a print formatter for XSL-FO: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ — Luke Daley http://www.gradleware.com — Luke Daley http://www.gradleware.com
