- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:37:14 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "Cramer, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
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 -- 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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