Bug#451258: fop: footnote inside varlistentry is not rendered in PDF output

[Michael Koch]

tag 451258 upstream
forwarded 451258 http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37579
thanks

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:04:41AM +0100, Michalis Kamburelis wrote:
> Michael Koch wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:09:10PM +0100, Michalis Kamburelis wrote:
> >> The same problem occurs with footnotes in orderedlist, for a test just try
> >>
> >> <orderedlist>
> >>   <listitem><para>Third footnote from ordered list
> >>     <footnote><para>Third footnote.</para></footnote></para>
> >>   </listitem>
> >> </orderedlist>
> > 
> > Was this fixed with the fop 0.94 update? Can you still reproduce this?
> > 
> 
> I upgraded to fop 1:0.94.dfsg-1 in unstable and yes, the bug is still
> present.
> 
> Some details about this bug that I found in the meantime:
> 
> 1. It affects footnotes in all <variablelist>, <glosslist>,
> <orderedlist>, <itemizedlist> DocBook elements.
> 
> 2. If you're working with <variablelist> or <glosslist>, then there is
> one workaround: you can set variablelist.as.blocks and
> glosslist.as.blocks XSL parameters (like
> 
>   <xsl:param name="variablelist.as.blocks">1</xsl:param>
>   <xsl:param name="glosslist.as.blocks">1</xsl:param>
> 
> ). This way <variablelist> and <glosslist> are not formatted as real
> lists in XML-FO files, and footnotes from there work OK. But this also
> changes the look of these elements in PDF output, so it may not be
> desirable.
> 
> Unfortunately, this doesn't help at all if you want to make footnotes
> >from <orderedlist> or <itemizedlist>.
> 
> 3. It turns out this is a known problem with FOP, see
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/knownissues.html (search for text
> "Footnotes swallowed in lists") and
> http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37579
> 
> I hope this info helps others that are affected by this bug...

Thanks for that information. I will tag the bug accordingly.


Cheers,
Michael