- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:13:21 -0500
- To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 01:19 +0000, Alan Stearns wrote: > Dave, > > The current draft has ‘footnote’ and ‘inline-footnote’ values for the > float property, but this seems like a property of the footnote area more > than each individual footnote. You mentioned on IRC that people do like to > mix block and inline footnotes to save space, but that seems like an > authoring nightmare to pick which footnotes are inline and which are > block. An example: https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Group/2008/06/footnote-examples/pages/Thompson-SemiticMagic-200/976x768.html [Member-only link, sorry; there are other footnote examples there too, including https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Group/2008/06/footnote-examples/pages/Charles-II-Pseudepigrapha-Ahikar-745/909x1200.html with column footnotes not at the foot of the page but at the foot of columns] > What if there was a property you could set on the footnote area that took > these values? > > block - footnotes are all display block > > inline - footnotes are all display inline > > inline-block - footnotes are all display inline-block, which means that a > series of shorter footnotes would all render on a single line, while > longer ones would render on their own. Well, that's probably the desired effect. You might not want to have inline footnotes after the last line of a block footnote, or you might; break-after could force that I suppose? I agree this sounds a little cleaner. 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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