- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:15:37 -0500
- To: "Cramer, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>
- Cc: W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 16:39 -0500, Cramer, Dave wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > How do you place footnotes in multi-column text? I've seen the > following: > > [1] Footnotes placed in same column as reference, at bottom of page > [2] Footnotes placed in same column as reference, at bottom of column > (if the column is short, the footnote will not be near the bottom of > the page) > [3] Footnotes in two-column layout placed only at bottom of right-hand > column > [4] Footnotes placed in region that spans all columns of page (so > footnotes are 1-column even if text is multi-column). [5] Footnotes placed in region that spans all columns of page, but which itself multi-column (not necessarily same number of columns as the body). I put some footnote examples up a few years ago for XSL-FO work: https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Group/2008/06/footnote-examples/ At that time we agreed some of them were not in scope for our work: you still need to solve the underlying problems of course, but not necessarily with exactly the same layout. But that was for XSL-FO and not CSS. > I'm especially interested in what happens when columns are short, > uneven, or if the column count changes on a page. Uneven, 2 common cases: 1. there's a single footnote area spanning all the columns, just as tall as the biggest stack of notes. 2. per-column footnote areas, as in e,g, https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Group/2008/06/footnote-examples/pages/Kieckhefer-ForbiddenRites-276/ If the column-count changes, sometimes you "empty out" all footnotes in the middle of the page, so they are really end-notes for a section. Otherwise, the number of columns in the footnote area doesn't need to relate to the number of columns in the body. > I'm also curious how common it is to set footnotes in multiple columns > when the body text is a single column. Very common in humanities academic publishing I think, where you have a lot of short footnotes. https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Group/2008/06/footnote-examples/pages/Charles-II-Pseudepigrapha-Ahikar-745/ also shows two levels of footnotes - per column, and per page. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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