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Petter Reinholdtsen commented on FOP-2727: ------------------------------------------ [Simon Steiner] Does this mean the bug is in fop and not xmlto? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen > fo:float needs to be inside a block > ----------------------------------- > > Key: FOP-2727 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2727 > Project: FOP > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: fo/unqualified > Affects Versions: 1.1, 2.0, 2.1 > Environment: Debian Jessie and Stretch. > Reporter: Petter Reinholdtsen > Priority: Minor > > Hi. When trying to figure out how to make sure my docbook sidebars end up on > the side of the text, I tried following the instructions on <URL: > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SideFloats.html > and wrote a simple > example docbook file to test floating sidebars. This do not work and I get a > message about a missing feature. Please add support for sidebars placed at > the side of the text body. > When processing my example, I get this message and the sidebar has > disappeared from the resulting PDF: > {noformat} > % xmlto --with-fop pdf db-sidebar-test.xml > Making portrait pages on letter paper (215.9mmx279.4mm) > Font "Symbol,normal,700" not found. Substituting with "Symbol,normal,400". > Font "ZapfDingbats,normal,700" not found. Substituting with > "ZapfDingbats,normal,400". > Rendered page #1. > Couldn't find hyphenation pattern for lang="en". > Rendered page #2. > The following feature isn't implemented by Apache FOP, yet: fo:float (on > fo:float) (No context info available) > No LayoutManager maker for class class org.apache.fop.fo.flow.Float > Rendered page #3. > Rendered page #4. > /tmp/user/1000/xmlto.xvMMIW > % > {noformat} > I tried using both fop 1.1 and 2.1, and both fail to create a PDF with a > sidebar. > This is the example docbook file I use: > {noformat} > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?> > <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" > "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"> > <book id="index" lang="en"> > <bookinfo> > <title>Test docbook sidebar</title> > </bookinfo> > <chapter id="installation"> > <title>Sidebar example</title> > <highlights> > <para>Some text in front of the sidebar.</para> > </highlights> > <sidebar> > <title>Sidebar example</title> > <?dbfo sidebar-width="1.5in"?><?dbfo float-type="left"?> > <para>A <sgmltag class="element">sidebar</sgmltag> > can be used to emphasize certain > content. It can intrude into > the body area, or it can > appear in side indents as > a margin note.</para> > </sidebar> > <para>Some text following the sidebar.</para> > </chapter> > </book> > {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)