It would be nice if we could get on-page footnotes, but the biggest problem I see with the current rendering is that "literal" and similar elements aren't computed in line endings, resulting in many truncated literal strings in paragraphs and overprinting of similar strings in tables. I tried to examine the CSS configuration to see if this could be controlled, but I couldn't find anything obvious.
From: Adam Murdoch [mailto:adam.murd...@gradleware.com] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 7:18 PM To: dev@gradle.codehaus.org Subject: Re: [gradle-dev] user guide: Anyone ever look into displaying footnotes on same page as reference? 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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<http://www.gradleware.com/> - Luke Daley http://www.gradleware.com<http://www.gradleware.com/> -- Adam Murdoch Gradle Co-founder http://www.gradle.org CTO Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting http://www.gradleware.com
