Re: Re[4]: Proposal for XHTML 2.0: The <footnote> element

on 15-01-2003 23:48, Alexander Savenkov at w3@hotbox.ru wrote:

> At first it has to be asked: what do you mean by a footnote? If the
> answer is "a piece of text in smaller font" then one would say
> it's a matter of style. If the answer is "a piece of text outside the
> 'main flow'" then an explanation is required.

A note is different from a section because it's similar to a link (in the
text) to an anchor (in a piece of text outside the 'main flow'), but there
is no an <a> link, but a visual link made with a symbol like a superscript
number or letter, an arrow, etc put both in the 'main flow' text and at the
beginning of the note. So we should use a solution similar to lists <ol>
<ul>, that automatically sets the position (foot, end, side, etc.)  and the
symbol for each note.

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