- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 08:54:45 -0400
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "Cramer, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 17:15 +0700, James Clark wrote: > Attached is an example (from the Diary of Samuel Pepys) of mixing block and > inline footnotes. The footnotes in this book are quite interesting. There > are two series of footnotes. Yes, this is common in critical editions / edited editions. Thank you for a good example. https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Group/2008/06/footnote-examples/pages/Thompson-SemiticMagic-200/976x768.html is similar - I hope this week (today probably) to move those to a public space, maybe a wiki somewhere so we can add analysis. When I do that I'll add your example and notes, if it's OK. [...] > But if there's only > a single note in this series on the page and it fits on a single line, then > it is set centered in a single column. (If you have a layout with a single > column body and multi-column footnotes, but a page has only one footnote > and that footnote fits on a single line, I suspect you are always going to > want to set that footnote as a single column.) In hand setting this was obviously common, and saves space because you don't need the column gap. In the example whose URI I gave, small/short footnotes are treated as inline to get several on a line and save paper, but longer footnotes are set as block, or at least start on a new line. [other useful comments skipped] > - When footnotes are numbered by page, you still might want to refer to the > footnote by number (e.g. you might have a footnote that just says "See note > 3 on page 21.") . If the footnotes are marked up out-of-line, then I guess > target-counter() could handle this. Yes (as in xsl-fo) as long as multiple streams of notes are supported. The digital publishing interest group (Member-only) is producing a very helpful document describing requirements for page layout from the publishing industry, although I fear it could become rather large. 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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