Moritz Moeller-Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > LyX uses a little box saying "foot" (possibly translated) to show a
| > footnote. Would you write better documents if LyX displayed some
| > symbol or other? I doubt it. Sure, we /could/ do it, at the cost of
| > complicating the code (read introduce more bugs). However, I suspect
| > that we'd rather spend out limited time in other ways.
|
| If you had ever tried editing a document with more than 1000 footnotes all
| of them labeled as "[foot]" in lyx, because lyx is unable to show the
| footnote number, you would see why it is helpful to see the footnote mark.
What would you like to see the footnote number or mark? What benefits
does it give?
| > On a more practical level, the only way to get this right is to make
| > LyX aware of the footnote symbols. If we were to show the symbol on
| > the footnote box, then using preview-latex is just a kludge.
|
| Better a kludge, than nothing! I have wished for footnote numbering since
| 1999.
_why_?
| I am sick of getting this argument against implementing a fscking simple
| footnote counter in lyx. So after reading your very long answer, I can only
| conclude, that lyx does not and will never have a useful implementation to
| see the footnote number, either using preview-latex ("kludge") or
| otherwise.
What are you goint to do with that number? Look at it?
| I think this is disappointing, because lyx would be a lot more useful to the
| sciences where footnotes are common (Humanities, Law), if it were possible
| to see the footnote number.
_why_?
| How hard would it be to learn enough C++ and lyx to add this feature myself?
Even if you learn enough C++, and that is not a lot you have to learn,
it is questionable if this "feature" should be added.
Seems to me that what you really want is footnote labels and to have
the label name mentioned in the "foot" on screen.
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Lgb
