Re: [css-books] Re: [css3-gcpm] Complex Footnotes

On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 10:11 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> [.. In Fig 13, some of the footnote markers have two numbers. e.g.:
> >
> >   40, 41 O my ... uncle
> >
> > This is similar to having numbered list items like:
> >
> >   1
> >   2
> >   3, 4
> >   5
> >
> > It may be that these cases must be hand-coded.

>  That
> seems like a lot of work for something extremely niche.

The non-niche part here is suppressing duplicate footnotes. This is a
common need when footnotes are cross-references or citations. In this
case the duplicates can all have the same footnte number, though, rather
than accumulating a list of numbers.


> >   make the element inline if it takes up less than a line, otherwise
> >   make it a a block

Yes, that makes sense. Inline mathematical equations might be treated
similarly, and also chemical formulæ and molecular structure diagrams -
in general, equations and small figures.

Liam

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Received on Monday, 28 October 2013 17:39:55 UTC