Re: 2 problems with pdfs

[Matthew East <mdke@ubuntu.com>]

Mauritz Jeanson <mj <at> johanneberg.com> writes:

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew East
> > 
> > 1. After an xref link I have the page number in brackets, 
> > however there is
> > sometimes a strange gap and weird rendering after this 
> > number. See for example
> > the first paragraph in section 3.3 on page 18 of the pdf file.
> 
> Seems to be a FOP bug. I can reproduce it, but I have no real help to offer.

Thanks, I'll report it. If you can help confirm things on the bug report, I'll
let you know what the bug number is!

> > 2. Sometimes footnotes do not appear for ulinks. See for 
> > example page 7 of the
> > pdf file, footnote 3. It is just missing?! I don't know why...
> 
> My guess is this FOP bug:
> http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37579.
> Does it work if you don't put the footnote in a list? 

I think that is it yes, I have a separate bug open about it.
 
> > I forgot my third problem: when I set double.sided, the page 
> > numbers stop being
> > central and go to the left and right of the page. That's 
> > fine, but the left hand
> > one doesn't stay in line with the left hand margin of the 
> > page. 
> 
> This seems similar to a known FOP problem concerning header/footer rules and
> indentation:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200509/msg00231.html. 
> 
> I don't know what to do about it, sorry.

I still remain of the view that there must be a solution to this somewhere,
given that I don't see it with the 1.68 stylesheets, perhaps it is a bug in the
stylesheets? If necessary I'll build using those, but I have no idea what might
break.

Matt