On Tuesday 21 January 2003 16:57, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > What would you like to see the footnote number or mark? What benefits > > does it give? > > Actually I accept his argument that a sequential numbering of all footnotes > might be some navigation help if the number of footnotes gets large. > > > What are you goint to do with that number? Look at it? > > One can e.g. make the (sequential!) numbers appear in print as well. > Going back from the proofs to the .lyx would be easy then.
Then this means that both the number and the name are useful. When writing is useful to read the name, when proofreading it is useful the number. Are the arguments like this? > Andre' -- José Abílio
