[xep-support] footnotes: reversed text and placement problem

[Alexander Peshkov]

Hello Susan,

You've hit a known problem. This strange effect actually manifests
strict compliance of XEP with XSL-FO specification :-)
According to XSL-FO specification all indents are inheritable and
should be inherited inside footnotes as well. In your case I suppose
that fo:block that surrounds your footnote has a text-indent and this
indent is inherited by the footnote. As a result the starting point of
the text in the list label is pushed to the right of text ending point
and the text became "reversed". The solution is to explicitly specify
zero text-indent on the fo:footnote element.

Best regards,
Alexander Peshkov                             mailto:peshkov at renderx.com
RenderX


Cyc> Hello,
Cyc> Still testing the XEP 3.8.4 trial version and have another problem.  I
Cyc> can do this transformation with Saxon/FOP, and it works fine.  But when
Cyc> I do it with XEP, I can't get the footnotes to line up even with the
Cyc> left page margin--instead they are indented on the left.  Also, in my
Cyc> template I used "space-before="10pt" on <fo:list-item> in order to add
Cyc> a separating space when multiple footnotes appear on one page.  That
Cyc> works fine in FOP, but when I use it in XEP I get the space between
Cyc> footnotes, but then the text in list-item-label is reversed--that is,
Cyc> footnote number 23. comes out as .32 or number 1. comes out as .1,
Cyc> backward.

Cyc> In my XML, the footnotes are inline, like this:

Cyc> <p>Text here<note type='e'>a footnote here</note> and more text
Cyc> here.</p>

Cyc> The template I'm using looks like this:

Cyc> <xsl:template match="note[@type='e']"> 
Cyc>     <fo:footnote>  
Cyc>         <fo:inline baseline-shift="super" font-size="8pt">
Cyc>             <xsl:apply-templates select="(.)" mode="enumber"/>
Cyc>                 <xsl:if test="following::node()[1][self::note]">
Cyc>                     <fo:inline color="black" baseline-shift="super"
font-size="8pt">>
Cyc>                         <xsl:text>/</xsl:text>
Cyc>                     </fo:inline>
Cyc>                 </xsl:if>
Cyc>         </fo:inline>      
Cyc>         <fo:footnote-body> 
Cyc>             <fo:list-block start-indent="0in">   
Cyc>                 <fo:list-item space-before="10pt">
Cyc>                     <fo:list-item-label end-indent="label-end()">
Cyc>                         <fo:block font-size="10pt" line-height="1em">
Cyc>                             <xsl:apply-templates select="(.)"
mode="enumber"/>>
Cyc>                                 <xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
Cyc>                         </fo:block>        
Cyc>                     </fo:list-item-label>
Cyc>                     <fo:list-item-body start-indent="2em">
Cyc>                         <fo:block font-size="10pt" line-height="1em">
Cyc>                             <xsl:apply-templates/>
Cyc>                         </fo:block>       
Cyc>                     </fo:list-item-body>
Cyc>                 </fo:list-item>
Cyc>             </fo:list-block>   
Cyc>         </fo:footnote-body>    
Cyc>     </fo:footnote>
Cyc> </xsl:template> 

Cyc> In case it matters, other templates related to foonote numbering and
Cyc> formatting are these:

Cyc> <xsl:template match="note[@type='e']" mode="enumber">
Cyc>     <xsl:number level="any" count="note[@type='e']"
Cyc> from="div[@type='section']"/>
Cyc> </xsl:template>

Cyc> <xsl:template match="note[@type='e']/p">
Cyc>     <fo:block font-size="10pt" line-height="1em">
Cyc>         <xsl:apply-templates/>
Cyc>     </fo:block>
Cyc> </xsl:template>

Cyc> I think I've tried everything, and I can't figure out why this works
Cyc> fine in FOP but not in XEP.  I found this in the xep-support archives:

Cyc> "reversely printed labels (as well as any other text not due to
Cyc> writing-mode) are usually caused by too narrow blocks causing negative
Cyc> character-spacing. In the particular case described that was a bug in
Cyc> the code. The bug is fixed and the fix will be published as a part of a
Cyc> bugfix release soon."

Cyc> If my problem is too narrow blocks, I don't know how to adjust that. 
Cyc> I've tried using various properties and combinations, but nothing
Cyc> works.  Now I'm totally confused. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Cyc> Thanks,
Cyc> Susan


                
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