I'm checking out a few different toolchains for some stuff I'm going to
be working on, and one I'm considering is Docbook -> FO -> PDF using
FOP. (Actually there's an extra Asciidoc->Docbook step in there, but
that doesn't matter for this discussion much.) I apologize for
approaching this from the Docbook side slightly and not the actual FO input.
I'd like to be able to stick in margin notes. I found [1] which
describes a way that works in some other FO renderers (I tried it in XEP):
Example
blah blah blah
but FOP just complains that fo:float isn't implemented.
I sort of expected this based on the comment at the top of the page
about side floats being new and mentioning a couple renderers but not FOP.
My question is whether there is some workaround. I found a few old
threads, and there didn't seem to be any suggestions better than "put
stuff in a table" which I really doubt would work for me.
I'm not all that hopeful, but I figured I'd ask.
(I'll probably put in a *little* effort to try to get margin notes via
tables and see automated I could make it. Maybe I can pull some XSL
tricks to make it relatively painless or something. The wildcard is what
the extra Asciidoc -> Docbook step will do to that.)
Thanks,
Evan
[1] http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SideFloats.html
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