[publican-list] Another foible with Publican 3.2.0

[Norman Dunbar]

Evening all,

I've found something else in Publican 3.2 that affects one of my books. 
I haven't noticed this before, so it might not be related to 3.2 itself.

I have a page, A4 sized, which has a <procedure> on it with a number of 
<step>s. If a <step>s has an <orderedlist spacing="compact"> or 
<itemizedlist spacing="compact"> and those particular lists are at the 
bottom of a page, then when rendered to pdf, using fop, the ordered list 
renders all over the footer details at the bottom of the page.

I also see pages where the actual <step> is rendered on the footer area 
as well. These steps have an <itemizedlist spacing="compact"> rather 
than an ordered one.

Pages where the <step> reaches the bottom of the page, and which have 
simple <para>s do not obliterate the footer, it only appears to be where 
lists are involved.

It also seems to only occur on those pages where the entire page is one 
or more <step>s from a <procedure>

The following should demonstrate the problem:

$ publican create --type=article --name=steps --version="1.0-0"

$ cd steps

$ vi en-US/steps.xml, the following is what the stuff between the 
<article> tags looks like on saving:

<article>
	<xi:include href="Article_Info.xml" 
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
         <xi:include href="article.xml" 
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
         <xi:include href="Revision_History.xml" 
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
	<index />
</article>


I have added the second include line, and removed the other test cruft!

Create article.xml as follows:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" 
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">

<section>

<title>How Procedure Steps Will Obliterate PDF Page Footer</title>

<procedure>

<xi:include href="onestep.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
<xi:include href="onestep.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />

<!-- the above line is repeated 10 times in total -->

</procedure>

</section>


And finally, create onestep.xml as follows:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" 
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">

<step>
         <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
                 <listitem><para>This is a list item.</para></listitem>
                 <listitem><para>This is a list item.</para></listitem>
                 <listitem><para>This is a list item.</para></listitem>
                 <listitem><para>This is a list item.</para></listitem>
                 <listitem><para>This is a list item.</para></listitem>
                 <listitem><para>This is a list item.</para></listitem>
                 <listitem><para>This is a list item.</para></listitem>
         </itemizedlist>
</step>


$ publican build -langs=en-US --formats=pdf


When rendered as pdf, using fop, the first page of the article is fine, 
the steps stop just above the footer area's horizontal rule. In my pdf I 
see step 2 on page one, has two items from the list, which then 
continues on page 2.

One page two, however, the list items are rendered all down the page to 
the actual paper edge. Step 8 has 3 items below the horizontal rule and 
the beginning of step 9 is rendered partly off the page.

I have to use fop for pdf rendering as I have indexes in my books etc 
and the wkhtmltopdf utility renders the page numbers as sections as if 
it was a normal html page.


Cheers,
Norm.

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Norman Dunbar
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