Modern footnotes and pdf

  • Resolved fjvanittersum

    (@fjvanittersum)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    I’am testing this plugin. It looks great. I also use BestWebSoft pdf&print plugin. In the pdf, the [mfn] tags are disappeared. The superscript footnote number is present, immediately – without any character, not even a space – followed by the footnote text.

    How can I add in the pdf a space after the footnote number or add brackets around the footnote in the pdf ?

    I tried to add the .modern-footnote__note class to the pdf-css, but this does not work:

    modern-footnotes-footnote__note::before {content: '[';}
modern-footnotes-footnote__note::after {content: ']';}

    Thanks !

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  • Plugin Author prismtechstudios

    (@prismtechstudios)

    I’m not familiar BestWebSoft PDF & Print, but my experience with PDF generation tools that take in HTML is they are limited in their CSS support. So, it could be that the pseudo-elements you’re trying to set with CSS are being ignored by that plugin.

    I’m not sure there is a way to do this through CSS alone in the PDF tool, so you might have to modify the Modern Footnotes plugin to make this work. I would try to modify the shortcode so it outputs hidden brackets where you want to display them in the PDF. In modern-footnotes.php, you could modify the modern_footnotes_func function to output different HTML. For example, you could replace lines 41 and 42 with something like this:

    $content = '<sup class="modern-footnotes-footnote ' . $additional_classes . '" data-mfn="' . str_replace('"',"\\\"", $display_number) . '"><a href="javascript:void(0)" ' . $additional_attributes . '>' . $display_number . '</a></sup>' .
  '<span class="modern-footnotes-footnote__note" data-mfn="' . str_replace('"',"\\\"", $display_number) . '">' . 
  '<span class="pdf-bracket">[</span>' .
  $content . 
  '<span class="pdf-bracket">]</span>' .
  '</span>';

    Then, you’d need to add a style of display:none for .pdf-bracket on the website, and a style of display:inline; to that same class for the PDF. Hopefully that will work!

    Thread Starter fjvanittersum

    (@fjvanittersum)

    Thanks for your quick response ! Unfortunately, I do not have time to work on this issue the next week. I will report my results as soon as I have tried your suggestions.

    Plugin Author prismtechstudios

    (@prismtechstudios)

    Sounds good, please let me know how it turns out when you do get a chance to work on it!

    Thread Starter fjvanittersum

    (@fjvanittersum)

    I had a few free minutes and added the script as instructed on my test system. It works fine !Just what I tried to do !

    Thanks !

    Plugin Author prismtechstudios

    (@prismtechstudios)

    Great!

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