On 03/05/2012 06:50 PM, stefano franchi wrote:
Speaking of endnotes, what I haven't been able to find out, instead,
is how to have two have features often found in Humanities books:
1. Running headers for the endnotes that says (automatically, of
course) "Notes for pages nnn-mmm" where nnn and mmm are the page
numbers of the page of text in which the first (respectively, last)
endnote of the current spread appears.
This kind of thing is going to be tricky. Have you asked on
comp.text.tex? Someone there
will almost certainly know how to do it. Whatever the solution, it will
involve the \addtoendnotes command, that one can use to write page
information to the endnotes file. The hard part will be how to figure
out what page the LAST endnote on the page is for.
2. "unnumbered endnotes", where the marker of the note is invisible in
the text (i.e. there is no marker), and is made up of the last 3 or 4
words before the endnote marker in the endnote itself. For instance,
you may have a sentence such as:
"This is a sentence I just made up to illustrate some
Humanities-specific way of using endnotes without using markers in the
text itself"
And the endnote could be something like:
"<i>without using markers</i> Some Humanities publishers really
dislike endnotes and footnotes and will only accept them if the text
appears not to have any. See, for instance, the following books..."
This one looks bad. I doubt it's possible to recover the previous text.
But one could mark it more or less like this:
way of using endnotes \enote{without using markers}{Some
Humanities...} in the text itself
and get that to do the right thing, I think. But it would probably
involve rewriting a lot of the endnote code.
Richard
