Re: [Texi2html-bug] Footnote formatting

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:04:25AM +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> 
> Ah, thanks. I copied that code to our .init script.
> I see you needed to override the paragraph function to insert the 
> [<a...>nr</a>] directly into the text before formatting. I suppose this does 
> not have any side-effects on other paragraphs (since you check for "footnote" 
> anyway).

It shouldn't. Additionally, everything that is in the footnote state 
should not be in the normal state either since the footnote state is
distinct from the normal state.

> It's unfortunate that the usual footnote style, which is typically found in 
> all publications, is not easily supported by texi2html.

I am not sure that something better could be done. The issue is that you
want to have the footnote formatting result while formatting the
footnote content itself, which would mean some 'forward looking'
formatting which is currently not possible since the formatting of the
@footnote is done at the @footnote closing.

It could be possible to reverse the order, that is first format the
footnote itself and then the footnote content, but it looks less
texinfo-ish to me.

> PS: I see that the fourth issue (where the <p> is inserted in the wrong 
> position when the footnote starts with a macro) is still present, right? (No, 
> don't worry, I don't want to pressure you, I simply don't want that issue to 
> be lost at all in case you missed that mail.)

I certainly missed that mail, I don't remember at all such issue, could
you please resend it?

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Pat