Bug 489243

Summary:	duplicate footnotes in PDF
Product:	[Community] Publican	Reporter:	Dana Mison <dmison>
Component:	publican	Assignee:	Brian Forte <bforte>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Content Services Development <ecs-dev-list>
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Priority:	low
Version:	2.0	CC:	bforte, jfearn, mmcallis, publican-list, rlandman
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Description Dana Mison 2009-03-09 02:55:39 UTC

Description of problem:
If the same URL is repeated on a page it produces two identical footnotes.  It would be nice if Publican could detect this and reuse the first footnote for the subsequent ones.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.42

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Add two <ulink> elements that point to the same URL so they will appear on the same page.
2. Generate pdf
  
Actual results:
Two identical footnotes are produced 

Expected results:
One footnote referred to by both.

Additional info:
The docbook element <footnoteref> may be useful here.

Comment 1 Dana Mison 2009-03-09 06:47:13 UTC

by "nice" I mean "professional-looking" ;-)

Comment 2 Dana Mison 2009-04-06 00:42:13 UTC

It would also be great if a similar idea could be applied to all footnotes.  ie. if the content is identical and they are being rendered for the same page.

Comment 3 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2009-04-06 00:48:29 UTC

This behaviour would need to be done in FOP because publican can't know if two links are on the same page since the page is laid out by FOP.