- From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:49:50 +1000 (AEST)
- To: WAI Working Group <w3c-wai-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Dave Raggett wrote: > Numbering is being worked on by the CSS & Formatting Properties > working group. I don't think they are considering foot notes > though. The problem of notes in general (whether they be side notes, footnotes or end notes) is both a markup issue and a style problem. There should be a mechanism by which one can indicate the presence of a note and leave such formatting details as the note marker (whether it be a number, an asterisk or another character) and the positioning of the text of the note to be controlled by style properties. I have not been able to find any element for indicating the presence of a note in the "element index" of the HTML 4.0 draft. Perhaps one could use an empty anchor element for this purpose, although this is obviously not an elegant solution: <a name=txt1 href="#fn1" class="footnote"> </a> (and the style properties would have to insert the note number into the text at that point).
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