Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: line before footnote area

[Marko Petersen <lg002237@rzserv2.fhnon.de>]

I also asked the FOP mailing-list. FOP does not
support it. See:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-user&m=103662136200514&w=2

Marko

At 15:29 12.11.2002 -0600, Paul Grosso wrote:
>I think what's desired is theoretically doable using
>an fo:static-content formatting object with a "flow-name"
>property value of "xsl-footnote-separator".
>
>See the last paragraph in section 6.4.1.4 of the XSL spec.
>
>However, not all XSL-FO implementations support this.
>
>paul
>
>At 13:12 2002 11 12 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:18:47PM +0100, Marko Petersen wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to add a line between the main-reference-area and
> >> the footnote-reference-area in the PDF output. Has anybody an
> >> idea how to do this?
> >
> >I don't see any way to do this.  When a <footnote> element
> >is processed, the following fo objects are placed in the fo file:
> >
> ><fo:footnote>
> >  <fo:inline>mark</fo:inline>
> >  <fo:footnote-body  font-size="{$footnote.font.size}">
> >     [apply templates to the footnote element]
> >  </fo:footnote-body>
> ></fo:footnote>
> >
> >While you could put a top border property on the
> >fo:footnote-body or a block within it, that would apply to
> >every footnote, not just the first one on the page.
> >Since the FO processor takes the fo:footnote-body elements
> >and makes the decision about on which page to place them,
> >there is no way for the stylesheet to designate the
> >first footnote on a page that should have a top border.
> >And I don't see a way to tell the FO processor to
> >do that, either.
> >
> >Does anyone else have a solution?
> >Are there any other 'hooks' for processing footnotes?
> >
> >--
> >
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