Re: Layout transactions

2003-06-10 Thread J.Pietschmann
Peter B. West wrote: That hadn't occurred to me. For clarification: orphan/widow and keeps apply to the content of footnotes the same way as to normal content. They are not indented and cannot be used (to my knowledge) to force footnotes itselef onot specific pages or to keep two otherwise unrelate

Re: Layout transactions

2003-06-09 Thread Peter B. West
J.Pietschmann wrote: Orphan/widow controls as well as keeps apply to footnotes too. That hadn't occurred to me. -- Peter B. West http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/resume.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additi

Re: Layout transactions

2003-06-09 Thread J.Pietschmann
Glen Mazza wrote: "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it may be better if there is only room for a single line of a multi- line footnote, to throw the text line plaus the whole of the footnote onto the next page. I think this is the main point of what you were writing--avoiding having

Re: Layout transactions

2003-06-06 Thread Glen Mazza
"Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it may be better > if there is only room for a single line of a multi- line footnote, to >throw the text line plaus the whole of the footnote >onto the next page. I think this is the main point of what you were writing--avoiding having just one line

Re: Layout transactions

2003-06-06 Thread Glen Mazza
--- "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Such a transaction has a minimum and a maximum > impact. Assuming that we > must place the first line of the footnote on the > same page, > The line-area generator would pass this information > up for the decision > to be made about committing t

Re: Layout transactions

2003-06-05 Thread Peter B. West
Glen, Comments below. Glen Mazza wrote: --- "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Such a transaction has a minimum and a maximum impact. Assuming that we must place the first line of the footnote on the same page, The line-area generator would pass this information up for the decision

Layout transactions

2003-06-05 Thread Peter B. West
Fopdevs, With reference to the discussion of footnotes in http://xml.apache.org/fop/design/alt.design/footnotes.html I have been thinking about the notion of a layout transaction. Inthe case of footnotes, a transaction is the addition of a line-area containing a footnote. In the case of the f