Using XSL FO with XEP 3.0 - lib

Leaders14. LeadersA leader is an object used in XSL FO to create horizontal rules, lengthy white spaces, dot-filled tabs etc.Here is an example of a horizontal inline rule used to form a nice separator:❋❷❶ This aligns the leader vertically to the middle baseline — more or less at the level where strokesof a small x character cross.❷ This draws a red eight-lobe asterisk. All dingbats should be referenced by their Unicode values;see XEP documentation for a list of codes assigned to ZapfDingbats glyphs.See also an example of leader usage in a section about page numbers.15. Footnotes and floatsTo insert a footnote at the bottom of the page, you should use a ‹fo:footnote› formatting object. It containstwo formatting objects as its children:• ‹fo:inline› contains an inline content used as a footnote anchor;• ‹fo:footnote-body› object stores the text of the footnote body; its content will be placed at the bottomof the page.Lists are often used to format footnote bodies. The example below shows a typical case:This text contains a footnote❶(1)(1)Page 22 of 30