We used to use FOP and switched to xhtmlrenderer a few years ago. Back then it gave better PDF output. Perhaps things have improved with FOP now.
On 9 Jul 2014, at 8:48 am, Luke Daley <luke.da...@gradleware.com> wrote: > 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 -- Adam Murdoch Gradle Co-founder http://www.gradle.org CTO Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting http://www.gradleware.com
