Re: [css-gcpm] move inline/block decision to footnote area?

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

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Received on Thursday, 6 March 2014 05:13:24 UTC