Re: Footnote discussions

On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 12:32:13 -0500
"Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken" <tsiegman@wiley.com> wrote:

> <footnote class="marginal" role="note | footnote" > <! -- this wording is under discussion. Currently, “note” is an ARIA role [1]. “Footnote” may be added in DPUB module -->
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Looks good, in order to refer to the same footnote more than once one probably also needs something like <footnote name="ipsizzle1" ...> ....</footnote> and <footnote ref="ipsizzle1" />


> In our work with PF, we are recommending a “noteref” role as well (definition: “A reference to a note, typically appearing a superscripted symbol in the main body of text.”)

Ah.  Although possibly people will ask why it's not just an "a" element...

> Once we get into publications in which we are trying to distinguish among authors of different notes (and perhaps at different times), I think we need to explore the Annotations model and/or RDFa.

Makes sense.

<footnote class="end auth3"> might be sufficient in a lot of cases.


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