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Unexpected footnote placement in latest builds

davidronk
We are currently testing the "latest" builds of Prince 14 against previous versions and noticed a difference with footnote placement (Prince versions 20201218 and 13.5).

We've attached a file with Prince 13 on the left, Prince 14 in the middle, and a diff on the right. Prince 13 shows the two footnotes together in the bottom right whereas Prince 14 shows the second footnote at the bottom of the column it resides in.

After some digging it appears to be related to css columns in conjunction with footnotes.

Source document: https://docraptor.com/samples/cookbook.html

Thanks,

David from DocRaptor
  1. Prince13-PrinceLatest-Diff.png‎ 1.4 MB ‎
    Prince 13 / Prince 14 / diff
csant
From the updated documentation (not yet published):

Note that by default, the element will be floated to the top or bottom of the column it appears in. This should mostly work as intended, since a normal page can be considered simply as a layout with one column! However, earlier implementations of page floats with the float property would float to the top of a page also in a multi-column layout. If the previous behaviour is the desired one, the following style rule needs to be added to your stylesheet:
    * { float-reference: page; }



Might this be your case?
davidronk
Yes that fixed it.

Thank you!

David from DocRaptor
csant
Excellent! It shows that we'll need to highlight this change, maybe more than we thought.
csant
Caveat: things might slightly change and be fine-tuned before the public release, so please make sure to check the relevant documentation when Prince 14 goes public!
davidronk
We will double check once it's public.
Thank you!