Remove URL Footnotes from Links
tajmone opened this issue · comments
- Disable links URL-footnotes in upstream XSL template (alan-xsl-fopub).
In the PDF backend, whenever there's an inline link, the final PDF doc will also add a footnote with the full URL. Although this was originally intended for printed books, where links are not actively clickable, in the PDF document it looks hugly (especially in "useful links" sections) and it's useless, since inline links are clickable in the PDF doc.
For a discussion on this, and how to fix it, see:
where @seinecle offers the following solution:
Adding these two parameters in fo-pdf.xsl remove footnotes:
<xsl:param name="ulink.footnotes" select="0"></xsl:param> <xsl:param name="ulink.show" select="0"></xsl:param>The first parameter disable footnotes, which triggers urls to re-appear inline.
The second parameter removes urls from the text. Links remain active and clickable.Non-zero values toggle these parameters.
Source:
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.78.1/doc/fo/ulink.show.html
Differences Preview
Below you'll find a link to the PDF Alan Manual before and after the XSL template fix for the links footnotes:
- PDF Manual before change: download / GH preview
- PDF Manual after change: download / GH preview
And here are some page numbers for comparing the differences:
- p.2 (laster par. Ch1 Intro) — before there were two footnotes with the URL
https://www.alanif.se/. - p.169 (first page of App. A) — before, 4 URLs of external links were present as footnotes.