I see your point. But in XMLmind XML editor the footnote is presented as
appearing on its own line. Thus, visually it implies a line break. Since
it visually gives the impression of a line break, it would make sense if
ditac inserted the white-space character for us. If I do as you say,
namely first finish the <p> before I insert the <fn>, the visual result,
in XXE, is that the line below the footnote starts with a space
character. And that to me seems odd.
Leif Halvard Silli
On 19 Aug 2017, at 10:36, Hussein Shafie wrote:
On 08/18/2017 11:02 PM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
This conbody contains two <fn> footnote elements:
<conbody>
<p>I need to make a remark.<fn>This is the
remark.</fn>Text continues …<fn>But as footnote:
So does life.</fn>And voila. Fine!</p>
</conbody>
If you remove the 2 <fn> child elements, your <p> contains:
<p>I need to make a remark.Text continues …And voila. Fine!</p>
which is not what you wanted to write because some space characters
are obviously missing.
Ditac converts the above to HTML as follows:
<div class="conbody">
<div class="p">I need to make a remark.<a
href="#I_d38e16_" class="fn-link"><sup
class="fn-callout">(1)</sup></a>Text continues
…<a
href="#I_d38e19_" class="fn-link"><sup
class="fn-callout">(2)</sup></a>And voila. Fine!
</div>
</div>
ISSUE: Lack of whitespace after each <a/> element
(the footnote links). Looks ugly in the HTML output.
SOLUTION: EITHER let the converter add the necessary whitespace
character. OR let the converter include a CSS rule
that inserts the whitespace character:
a.fn-link:after{content:" ";}
Not a bug.
The fact that your <p> contains <fn> child elements is not supposed to
have any influence of the whitespace it contains.
This also applies to any other child element of <p>. For example, in
your example, please replace <fn> by <i> and you'll have exactly the
same issue.
SOLUTION: Write the content of your <p> normally, then insert <fn> in
it.
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