On 2011-12-08, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 12/08/2011 11:26 AM, Rob Oakes wrote:
>> On Dec 7, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>>> IMV, we should make the placement of footnotes in HTML configurable.
>>> Sensible options include
>>> a) inline (as "tooltip" via CSS :mouseover:)
>>> b) in the footer for page-based output (e.g. print from HTML or ePub)
>>> c) endnotes (before/after other concluding sections and listings?)
>>> d) per chapter/section/subsection
>>> e) author-specified position via an inset
>> I'd really like this too, but I'm not sure what the best way to
>> implement it is. Putting HTML footnotes at the end (or collecting them
>> as Richard as suggested and I'm currently working on a patch for) is
>> pretty straightforward to code. (And I'm a pretty modest C++ coder.)
> I think (a), (c), (d), and (e) all work via the same inset. If it's
> not there, you default to (a). Where it is (and how often it appears)
> tells you which of the others you are doing.
I am fully satisfied with this (while othere might want have a setting
telling: "place footnotes at the end of each chapter" -- especially if
document splitting is added to the options.
However, we could have the convention
* no [Footnotes] inset -> display footnotes inline
* at least one [Footnotes] inset
- insert all footnotes collected up to here,
- insert eventually remaining footnotes at the end of the file
(i.e. with document splitting, footnotes are never taken across files).
> As for (b), I am not sure how to handle it. But I don't like having
> document options for such specific things. This leads to having way too
> many document options.
This should be handled via CSS (if possible) or left out.
Günter
