Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: line before footnote area

[Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk>]

At 21:12 12/11/2002, 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?




  <fo:page-sequence master-reference="only">
 <fo:static-content
                   flow-name="xsl-footnote-separator">
   <fo:block><fo:leader color="red" leader-pattern="rule"
leader-length="100%"></fo:leader></fo:block>


In this case provides a line to separate the two.

Regards DaveP.